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JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, LL.D. 



JUNE 24, 1896 



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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE. 



ISAAC N. DEMMON. 
WILLIAM H. PETTEE. 
FLOYD R. MECHEM. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 

Addresses in University Hall 
Regent Cocker's Address 
Address of the University Senate 
Resolutions of the State Teachers' Association 



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13 

Response of President Angell 14 

Professor Gayley's Ode 18 

Pean Murray's Address .21 

Mr. Justin Winsor's Address 24 

Professor Clark's Address 24 

President Draper's Address 26 

Commissioner Harris's Address ....... 30 

Responses at the Dinner 33-56 

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President Angell's Response 

Ex-Regent Willard's Response 

Mr. Rowland Hazard's Response 

Ex-Regent Cutcheon's Response 

Mrs. Turner's Response 

President Rogers's Response . 

President Sperry's Response 

President Harper's Response . 

Mr. Dickinson's Response . 

Professor Wright's Response . 

Mr. R. M. Wright's Response . . 
Congratulatory Letters and Telegrams 
From President Loudon, University of Toronto 
Chancellor Smith, McGill University 
President Hyde, Bowdoin College 
President Buckham, University of Vermont 
President Carter, WUliams College 
President Capen, Tufts College 
President Seelye, Smith College . 
President Hall, Clark University 



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From President Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 59 

President Mendenhall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute . 60 
President Andrews, Brown University . . . .60 

President Dwight, Yale University 61 

President Low, Columbia University 61 

President MacCracken, University of the City of New York 62 

President Taylor, Vassar College 62 

President Patton, Princeton University .... 62 

President Scott, Rutgers College 63 

Provost Harrison, University of Pennsylvania ... 64 
President and Faculty of Lafayette College . . . .64 

President Drown, The Lehigh University .... 64 

President Gilman, The Johns Hopkins University . . 65 

President Whitman, The Columbian University . . 65 

President and Faculty of the University of North Carolina . 66 

President Canfield, Ohio State University ... 66 

President Schapman, Detroit College 66 

President Kollen, Hope College . . . . . 67 

President Jesse, University of the State of Missouri . . 67 

Chancellor Chaplin, Washington University ... 67 

President Snow, University of Kansas 68 

President Baker, University of Colorado .... 68 
President KeUogg, University of California . . . .69 

Governor Rich . 69 

Ex-Regent Burt 69 

Ex-Regent Grosvenor 70 

Ex-Regent Joy 71 

Ex-Regent Willett 71 

Ex-Governor Alger 72 

Ex-Senator Palmer 72 

Ex-Minister Lothrop 73 

Judge Swan . 73 

Mmister Uhl 74 

Bishop Davies 74 

Bishop Gillespie 74 

Bishop Ninde 74 

Rev. Marcus A. Brownson 74 

Rev. Rufus W. Clark 75 

Rev. Wallace Radcliffe 75 

Ex-Professor White . 76 

Ex-Professor Tyler 76 

Ex-Professor Arndt 79 

Ex-Professor Gerrish 79 

Superintendent Duffield 79 



CONTENTS. Vli 

From Mr. Charles W. Dabney 80 

Professor Hart 80 

Professor Strong . .80 

Professor Holden 81 

Messrs. Campbell, Hussey, and Colton 81 

Mr. Edward P. Allen 81 

Professor Bigelow 82 

Mr. B. F. Bower 82 

Professor Brown ......... 82 

Mr. Lawrence C. Hull 83 

Dr. Henry M. Hurd . . . . . . . .83 

Professor Senier 84 

Professor Woodward ........ 84 

Board of Eegents 85 

University Senate . . 85-87 

Guests at the Dinner 88-92 



INTRODUCTION. 



On the 21st of February, 1895, the Board of Regents of the 
University of Michigan took the first official action in connection 
with the celebration of President Angell's quarter-centennial of 
service as President of the University, by adopting a resolution, sub- 
mitted by Regent Cocker, in terms as follows : — 

Resolved, That a committee of three members of the Board of 
Regents be appointed to confer with a committee of the University 
Senate to take under consideration the fact that next year is the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of the appointment of Dr. Angell to the pres- 
idency of the University ; and that such committee consist of Regents 
Barbour, Kiefer, and Fletcher. 

The Senate committee of conference was appointed in the month 
of May following. It consisted of the deans of the several depart- 
ments of the University, with Professor D'Ooge, Dean of the De- 
partment of Literature, Science, and the Arts, as chairman. This 
committee was also empowered to act for the Senate in arranging 
the details of the celebration, and was given authority to appoint 
sub-committees for special duties. 

The sub-committees appointed were as follows : — 

Committee on Address to the President. — Professors D'Ooge, 
Walter, and Hutchins. 

Committee on Invitations. — Regents Barbour and Cocker, and 
Professors Prescott, Vaughan, Adams, Hudson, and W. B. Hinsdale. 

Committee on Programme. — Professors Nancrede, Carhart, and 
Stanley. 

Committee on Entertainment, Decorations, and Ushers. — Pro- 
fessors Carrow, Greene, Denison, Beman, and Hoff, and Treasurer 
Soule. 

Committee on Publication. — Professors Demmon, Pettee, and 
Mechem. 

Special invitations were sent in the name of the Board of Regents 
and the University Senate to presidents of universities and colleges, 



2 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

to representatives of alumni associations, to former members of the 
Board of Regents and the University Senate, and to a large number 
of persons interested in higher education in Michigan and throughout 
the country. A general invitation was also extended through the 
public press to all alumni and friends of the University. 

The celebration was held on Wednesday, June 24, 1896, the day 
before the Annual Commencement. In the forenoon the public 
exercises in University Hall consisted of addresses, greetings from 
other institutions, a Commemorative Ode contributed by Professor 
Charles MiUs Gayley, and music specially written for the occasion 
by Professor Stanley. Regent Butterfield acted as presiding officer, 
and felicitously introduced the several speakers in pursuance of the 
programme here given. 

PROGRAMME. 

Chorus Triumphalis. 

March-Fantasia with Chorus. 

Professor Albert A. Stanley. 

Prayer. 

Rev. Joseph M. Gelston, Class of 1869. 

Address on Behalf of the Board of Regents. 

Regent William J. Cocker, Class of 1869. 

Address of the University Senate. 

Presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee, 

Professor Martin L. D'Ooge, Class of 1862. 

Resolutions of the State Teachers' Association. 

Presented by Professor Florus A. Barbour, Class of 1878. 

Response of President Angell. 

Commemorative Ode. 

Written by Professor Charles Mills Gayley, Class of 1878, 

now of the University of California. 
Music Composed by Professor Stanley. 

Greetings from Brown and Princeton Universities. 

Rev. James O. Murray, Dean of Princeton University. 

Greetings from Harvard University. 

Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University. 



INTRODUCTION. 3 

Greetings from Yale University. 

Professor John E. Clark, Class of 1856, 

now of the Sheffield Scientific School. 

Greetings from the State Universities. 

President Andrew S. Draper, of the University of Illinois. 

Greetings from the National Bureau of Education. 

William T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education. 

Chorus. " The Strain Upraise." 

Professor Stanley and Members of the Choral Union. 

In the afternoon a dinner was served in the Waterman Gymna- 
sium, which was attended by the invited guests, and by about four 
hundred other ladies and gentlemen, mostly alumni of the Univer- 
sity. Professor D'Ooge presided, and introduced the persons selected 
to respond to toasts. He also read a number of congratulatory let- 
ters and telegrams. 

The toasts and the speakers were as follows : — 

Our Guest. President Angell. 

The Board of Regents that called President Angell. 

Ex-Regent George Willard. 

AuLD Lang Syne. 

Rowland Hazard, Peace Dale, R. I. 

The University and the Alumni. 

Byron M. Cutcheon, Class of 186X, 

Women in the University. 

Mrs. Madelon Stockwell Turner, Class of 1872. 

The University and Higher Education in the Northwest. 

President Henry Wade Rogers, Class of 1874. 

The University and the Colleges of Michigan. 

President Willard G. Sperry, of Olivet College. 

The University of Chicago. 

President WiUiam R. Harper. 

The President Angell Memorial. 

Don M. Dickinson, Law Class of 1867. 



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Oberlin College. Professor George F. Wright. 

The Class of 1871. Mr. Robert M. Wright. 

His Excellency Governor John T. Rich was expected to be pres- 
ent and to respond to the toast, The University and the State, but he 
was unavoidably detained. He sent a congratulatory letter which 
was read at the dinner. 



THE ADDKESSES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 



REGENT COCKER'S ADDRESS. 

While the University is greatly indebted to the State for 
its generous aid and support, the State is indebted to the Uni- 
versity for its direct and wholesome influence on the educa- 
tional system of the State, and for the able men it has trained 
to promote the varied interests of the commonwealth and to 
honor its name in State and national affairs. It is, therefore, 
fitting on this the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Angell's in- 
auguration as president, that grateful acknowledgment should 
be made in behalf of the State of its indebtedness to the dis- 
tinguished teacher who for so many years has devoted himself 
to its educational interests. 

It is greatly to the credit of the early settlers of Michigan 
that they took care that " good learning should not perish 
from among us." They were brave enough to face every dan- 
ger and wise enough to found a university. While Michigan 
was still a Territory, and its population numbered only six or 
seven thousand persons, an act was passed creating a uni- 
versity. Our first lawgivers were not willing that knowledge 
should be dependent on the chance charity of generous men 
of wealth. They established for all time, as far as this State 
is concerned, the great principle that " the education of the 
people is a public duty," and that the appropriation of public 
money for this end is a legitimate public expenditure. They 
did not propose that learning should be buried in the graves 
of their forefathers. 

The relation between the State and the University is so 
close, and the influence of the University on the general wel- 
fare of the State is so great, that to shape and give proper 



6 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

direction to the work of the University is a grave responsi- 
bility. Few can appreciate the difficulties that the President 
of a State University has to meet. There are so many and so 
conflicting views as to the relation of the State to higher edu- 
cation, so many changes in the governing board, so many local 
prejudices to satisfy, and so much uncertainty regarding State 
appropriations, that an institution like our own encounters 
greater dangers and requires greater wisdom in administration 
than do other institutions of learning whose policy is largely 
fixed by tradition, and whose interests are conserved by a rich 
and powerful body of alumni. To place the University in the 
front rank of the great schools of learning with their rich en- 
dowments, to make the State known and respected abroad 
through its University, and in spite of opposing influences to 
make it the crowning glory of the State, require the highest 
wisdom and the rarest skill. All friends of the University 
gratefully recognize the indebtedness of this institution of 
learning to the distinguished scholar and teacher who now 
presides so ably over its interests. 

Not alone as a college president has Dr. Angell won dis- 
tinction. He is a recognized authority on international law, 
and his writings and public addresses on the important ques- 
tions of the hour have justly commanded general attention. 
The national government, recognizing his exceptional fitness, 
sent him as Minister Plenipotentiary to China to negotiate 
a revision of an important treaty, and twice he has been 
selected by the government of the United States to serve on 
important commissions. Whether as the representative of 
the University or of the State or of the national government, 
he has worthily performed the duties intrusted to his care. 
The University rejoices in his well-earned distinctions, and 
the State is justly proud of his achievements. 

Some one has said that " the worth of a college, whether 
eastern or western, of the Old World or the New, consists not 
in its history or its material equipment, but in the men who 
compose its teaching force." This is especially true of this 
University. Its buildings are unpretentious, its endowments 



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EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 7 

meagre, its gifts few in number, and its life free from impos- 
ing ceremonies or impressive distinctions. From humble be- 
ginnings, and without the associations of a venerable past, it 
has rapidly grown and developed. Men of broad views and 
ripe scholarship have served in its faculties and given breadth 
and character to learning. The University has been richly 
endowed with great teachers, if not with ample revenues. Its 
presidents have been gifted and scholarly men who, with rare 
skill, have shaped its policy. During the twenty-five years of 
Dr. AngelFs administration the University has grown wonder- 
fully in the number of its students and in the breadth and 
character of its work. While it has carefully preserved what 
is of value in the methods and traditions of the older schools 
of learning, it has kept pace with the pressing demands of 
modern life. The fact has been duly recognized that a sys- 
tematic and thorough training in the practical problems of the 
times in which we live is the prime function of a university. 
The idea has been rapidly gaining ground that the universities 
throughout the land should be the great centres for the solu- 
tion of the increasing number of economic questions that are 
crowding upon the attention of the people. Unless proper 
direction is given to the discussion of these perplexing ques- 
tions, there is danger of rash and hasty conclusions that may 
involve the country in needless embarrassments or in hopeless 
confusion. While the study of the classics will always be 
sought for special lines of work, and for the broad and gener- 
ous culture which they bring, it is becoming more and more 
apparent that the student must also be made familiar with 
those practical problems that enter into the general life and 
future welfare of the nation. Modern research has revealed 
so many new and unexpected sources of knowledge, and sug- 
gested so many different lines of investigation, that the char- 
acter and whole plan of college training has been undergoing 
a change. President Eliot, in a recent address, eloquently 
said that universities are no longer " merely students of the 
past, meditative observers of the present, or critics, at a safe 
distance, of the actual struggles and strifes of the working 



8 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

world ; they are active participants in all the fundamental, 
progressive work of modern society." 

But it is not for me to describe the changes that have taken 
place in the courses of study, or to enumerate the additions 
that have been made to the departments of the University, 
during the administration of Dr. Angell. His associates in 
the University Senate will fittingly refer to these. 

To me, Dr. Angell, has been given the pleasant duty of 
offering the congratulations of the Board of Regents to you, 
its presiding officer, and of bearing willing testimony to the 
respect and esteem in which you are held by the several mem- 
bers of the Board. Of your loyal affection for the University 
and of your zeal in promoting its varied interests, we have had 
repeated and abundant proofs. To you the University is 
largely indebted for its present efficiency, and for the honor- 
able position it now maintains among the great schools of 
learning. I know of no greater distinction than wisely to 
have shaped the destinies of a young and vigorous institution 
of learning, and of no greater honor than worthily to have 
earned the confidence of a great body of students. I can wish 
nothing better for the University than that you, its honored 
president, may long be spared to direct its affairs and to 
honor the State with your public services. 

ADDRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 

Mr, President^ — The Senate of the University brings to 
you on this auspicious day, which commemorates the comple- 
tion of your quarter-centennial of service, its tribute of grate- 
ful recognition and personal esteem. 

We congratulate you and the University on the brilliant 
record of the past, and express to you our heartiest and best 
wishes for the future. As we turn back to the day of your 
inauguration, we recall with deep emotion the glowing words 
of welcome spoken to you by Dr. Frieze when you were in- 
ducted into the presidency. " To this work of high promise," 
said he, " we have called you ; leader in this grand educational 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 9 

enterprise we have made you. We sought one to take the 
helm who possessed at once the vigor and enthusiasm of youth 
and the calm prudence and patient waiting of riper years. 
We sought one of kindly heart and resolute will ; of disci- 
plined mind and cultured taste ; equally at home in the seclu- 
sion of the study and in the public assembly ; familiar with 
the institutions of foreign lands as well as our own ; holding 
loyally to all that is good in the past, yet generously accepting 
all that is good in the present ; and crowning all these gifts 
and attainments with the faith and the life of an earnest Chris- 
tian. . . . We pledge you our fraternal sympathy, our devoted 
friendship, and our unwavering support." 

Looking back over the years that have since intervened, we 
mark these words as a prophecy of what we believe has been 
proved true, and we rejoice to-day at the fulfillment of these 
bright hopes. 

You came to the University at a critical time, when she 
stood at the parting of the ways. The days of her infancy 
were ended. The plans of her great founder, President Tap- 
pan, were waiting for more complete development. President 
Haven and President Frieze had guarded well the traditions 
already established, and sought to incorporate new ideas with 
her life. But the true university ideal was still but little 
more than an ideal, toward the realization of which we have 
been working all these years under your wise and inspiring 
leadership. 

During this period of twenty-five years, the growth of the 
University has been truly remarkable. Its resources have been 
trebled, its students have increased from twelve hundred to 
three thousand, its staff of instruction has grown more than 
four times as large, while the scope of its work has been ex- 
tended by the addition of four new departments, the Schools 
of Dentistry, of Pharmacy, of Homoeopathy, and of Engineer- 
ing. Within the department of Literature, Science, and the 
Arts have been created several important chairs, while nu- 
merous facilities in the way of laboratories and seminaries and 
lectureships and apparatus have given added strength and 



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10 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

value to aU courses of instruction. But as you have often 
taken occasion to remark, Mr. President, bigness is not great- 
ness, and we find the most satisfactory and convincing proofs 
of the success of your administration in those less palpable 
but more valuable improvements and advances that are more 
spiritual than material, and that constitute most clearly the 
essential elements of a true university. As such elements we 
would name, first, the closer articulation of the University 
with the organic system of State Education, of which it is the 
head. Under your fostering care, this relation, which was in- 
stituted just before you came to us, has been made more vital, 
and has become increasingly fruitful of good both to secondary 
education and to the University. 

Another element of University progress is the development 
of the elective system, and the opportunity it affords for 
advanced work and scientific investigation. Of the beneficial 
results of this system, in the way of promoting scholarship, 
and of giving to the life of the University a more mature and 
earnest spirit, there can be no doubt. 

This catholicity of purpose, this breaking down of the tra- 
ditional class distinctions, and this wide LehrfreiJieit have not 
been purchased at the price of solidity and discipline ; and this 
happy result we owe in no small degree to your wise conserva- 
tism and broad outlook over the whole field of education. 
Closely related to this movement for wider choice of studies 
and greater independence of a routine curriculum is the effort 
to foster graduate study, and to build up that higher side of 
the University that in the end must measure its real character 
and influence. 

Twenty-five years ago no graduate work, properly so-called, 
was attempted. At present we have graduate courses of study 
in all departments of the University. To no one subject have 
your reports called more urgent attention than to the impor- 
tance of building up this the most distinctive part of a true 
university. 

Closely allied to this forward movement is the constant ad- 
vance made by our Professional Schools in their methods and 



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standards of instruction. In looking over the record of these 
past years, the conviction is gained that the University has in 
no other direction made greater strides than in this. Twenty- 
five years ago there was no examination for admission to any 
one of our professional schools ; to-day, preliminary training 
that covers the equivalent of a good High School course is 
required by all our professional departments. 

Then, the term of both the Law and the Medical Schools 
was six months for two years, and the instruction was given 
chiefly by lectures. Now, our Medical Schools require a regis- 
tration of four terms of nine months each, and si^K" a stand- 
ard for graduation that is as high as that oi'^any medical 
school in this country, while the Law Sc^>ol has length- 
ened its course to three years of nine moPttns each, and has 
signally raised its standard of graduation. In all these de- 
partments, the old style of instruction has been materially 
modified or superseded by modern methods, in which labora- 
tory practice and scientific research hold the most prominent 
place. 

The year before your induction into the presidency the 
doors of the University were first thrown open to the admission 
of women. What was for a time a bold experiment has be- 
come an established success, and the hundreds of young women 
who have worthily enjoyed the full privileges and advantages 
of the University on absolutely equal terms with young men, 
are glad to bring you their tribute of gratitude for your just 
and wise administration, by which the interests of women in 
this University have been made secure. 

The entire life and spirit of the University during this 
period which we pass in review have been marked by a steady 
growth in good order and decorum, in friendly relations be- 
tween pupils and teachers, and in all that makes for a whole- 
some intellectual and moral atmosphere. 

That amid much and necessary diversity of interest there has 
been so much harmony and unity in our councils as a Senate, 
and in the different Faculties, is due in no small measure to 
your impartial conduct of affairs, your broad and generous 



12 PRESIDENT ANGELL^S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

views, your charitable spirit, and your gracious courtesy. 
That the University has safely passed through many crises, 
has gained respect and influence throughout our State and the 
entire land, is to be attributed in large degree to your skillful 
management, your experience in educational work, and to 
your high character as a citizen and as a man. 

We congratulate the University, Mr. President, upon the 
reputation you have justly earned for her, a reputation not 
bounded by the seas, but cherished also in the far Orient and 
in the centres of European learning as well as at home. We 
recall \^it^i feelings o£ honest pride how our own National 
Governmen?'kas thrice summoned you to high service in diplo- 
macy and council. We are glad also to remember that in the 
discussion of the great educational problems of our day, your 
words are ever welcomed as those of one who has authority to 
speak. 

But most of all, we who have been associated with you these 
many years admire and esteem you for what you have been 
to us and to this beloved University. The cheerful and serene 
temper in which you have borne the heavy burden of your 
duties, the kind and gracious manner in which you have 
helped us to fulfill our tasks, the spirit of hopefulness for the 
future of this institution with which you have inspired us, the 
numberless tokens of personal kindness you have shown to us 
all, it is these daily ministrations of your life — if you will 
pardon what Plato would caU too much downrightness of 
speech — that endear you to us all. Our memories thrill to-day 
with sacred recollections of the past, and we fancy we hear 
mingling with our words of greeting voices from the silent 
land of those beloved colleagues who twenty-five years ago 
stood here to bid you welcome to this post of honor, but who 
are with us now only in memory and in spirit, to join with us 
in these expressions of our esteem and praise. 

In closing these congratulations, Mr. President, the mem- 
bers of the Senate are cheered by the hope that the same bond 
which has united us all these many years in common work and 
interest may be cemented still more firmly by future years of 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 13 

companionship in the great work in which we are engaged. 
May that divine Providence that has blessed you so abun- 
dantly in the past still attend you and prolong your days of 
fruitful service to this University, to which so much of your 
life has been given. And may the blessing of Heaven also be 
vouchsafed to her who during all this time has so devotedly 
stood at your side to aid you, and who by her deeds of kind- 
ness and helpfulness has made herself the friend of all our 
University community. 

Whatever be the future of this University, your work on its 
behalf shall be an abiding possession of good influence and 
power, and shall constitute one of the chief elements of its 
greatness and renown for all time. 

RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

Whereas^ This year completes the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of President Angell's connection with the University of 
Michigan ; 

WTiereas, During that time the growth of the University 
has been marked not only by a large increase in the number 
of its students, but by the wisdom and enlightenment of a 
most liberal educational policy ; 

WTiereas, The High Schools of the State, and through 
them the Common Schools, have felt the inspiration and uplift 
of a close connection with the University, hundreds of young 
men and women of but moderate means having thus been led 
to set their faces ambitiously in the direction of University 
life and culture ; and 

W7ie7'eas, In this respect no university in the country can 
be said to have exerted so widespread and salutary an influ- 
ence upon popular education, — an influence due in no small 
degree to the ripe scholar and able executive who has the 
management of the University in charge ; 

Resolved, That we, the teachers of Michigan, do hereby 
most gratefully express our appreciation of his eminent ser- 
vices to the cause of popular education in our Commonwealth ; 



14 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Hesolved, That while we congratulate him upon the distin- 
guished success of his administration in the past, we do also 
express the hope that his genial presence may be spared to the 
State yet many a year to carry forward the interests so dear 
to his heart. 

PKESIDENT ANGELL'S RESPONSE. 

Gentlemen of the Board of Regents^ of the University 
Senate^ and of the State Teachers^ Association^ — I beg to 
return my sincere thanks to you for the kind words with 
which you greet me on this the twenty-i&f th anniversary of my 
inauguration. 

But my gratitude is mingled with a sense of humility, as I 
consider how far, in my opinion, your estimate of the value of 
my services exceeds their real worth. The partiality of your 
friendship has ascribed to me merit far beyond my deserts. But 
the friendship is most dear to me, and this touching manifes- 
tation of it from those with whom it has been my rare good 
fortune to labor for so many years almost obliterates from my 
memory for the moment my failures and shortcomings and 
disappointments, which have sometimes oppressed me in my 
work. Your words embolden me to believe that those who 
know me best are persuaded that however I may have fallen 
below their ideals and below my own, yet with devotion to 
the interests of the University and of the State, and with the 
consecration of whatever powers God has bestowed on me, I 
have striven to do my whole duty. No higher reward could 
I hope or wish in return for my years of toil, with all their 
fatigues and anxieties, than the assurance, from you who best 
of all men know the difficulties that have been encountered 
and the results that have been accomplished, that my work 
has not been altogether fruitless. 

But I should fail to do justice at once to the truth and to 
my own feelings, if I did not hasten to say that all my efforts 
would have been in vain if I had not been counseled and 
assisted by so true and faithful men on the Board of Regents 
and in the Faculties. The fidelity with which Regents who 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 15 

had large business interests or engrossing professional duties, 
have given time and thought and labor to the University, has 
been an indispensable element in its success. I know of no 
university which has been better cared for by its official 
guardians. I am glad of this opportunity to thank the pres- 
ent members of the Board and their predecessors for their 
unvarying kindness and helpfulness to me. I remember with 
tender interest that nine who have served on the Board with 
me have died. 

What university has had a more choice collection of men 
in its Faculties during the last quarter of a century than this ! 
It is they who preeminently have made the University what it 
is. In my service and companionship with them is found one 
of the dearest memories of my life. Alas ! that in so many 
cases the companionship has already been severed by death. 
Out of the one hundred and seventy teachers now here, only 
seven were here when I came. You have quoted from the 
hearty greeting which my old teacher and lifelong friend. 
Doctor Frieze, gave me on the day of my inauguration. How 
valuable were his counsels ! How dear was his friendship to 
me to the day of his death ! How in our long walks we used 
to dream dreams of the coming greatness and power and be- 
neficence of this University ! Many of these dreams, thanks in 
large part to his labors and influence, have already been real- 
ized in fact. Besides him death has snatched away how many 
noble and distinguished men, who had long served the Uni- 
versity : Williams, — good old DoQtor Williams, as we always 
love to call him, — Douglas, Sager, Cocker, Morris, Olney, 
Winchell, Campbell, Walker, Wells, Watson, Palmer, Crosby, 
Lyster, Ford, Dunster, the brothers Cheever, and Elisha 
Jones, and last of all, the venerable Felch. One has only to 
call this roll of illustrious names to understand why students 
from all parts of the Union, and from the nations beyond the 
seas, have flocked to these halls. They have been drawn 
hither to sit at the feet of these great teachers, and of others 
like them, who, thank God, are still spared to us. 

I can claim no merit save that of having heartily cooperated 



16 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUAKTER-CENTENNIAL. 

with these learned and wise instructors. Large as is our body 
of teachers, we have habitually followed one rule, which in my 
opinion has been of inestimable service, both in promoting the 
proverbial harmony and friendliness among us, and in secur- 
ing wise legislation and successful administration. That rule 
is, never to make any important innovation on the vote of a 
bare majority, but to wait until we are substantially agreed 
on the wisdom of a change before introducing it. So we have 
wrought together with one heart and one mind, and in the 
enjoyment of the most delightful social relations. 

If I have accomplished anything here, it is mainly because 
my colleagues, from the oldest to the youngest, have so heartily 
stood by me, have been so patient with my shortcomings, have 
so promptly responded to every request, nay to every sugges- 
tion which I have made. Never was a president surrounded 
by more helpful and loyal associates. My heart runs out 
with gratitude to them for the innumerable acts by which they 
have lightened my burdens and made my tasks a pleasure. 

Nor would I forget to-day how helpful have been the rela- 
tions which the students have chosen to maintain with me. 
Several thousand have come and gone during these twenty-five 
years. My heart is bound by the tenderest ties to the great 
company of students whom I have seen going from these halls 
year after year. Nothing gives me keener joy or more pride 
in the University than to see them worthily occupying posi- 
tions of influence and usefulness. No more pleasant experi- 
ence comes to me than to receive their cordial greetings 
wherever I go. Their affection^ for their Alma Mater is an 
endowment more precious than untold treasures of silver and 
gold. Because we are sure of their devotion to her, we are 
full of hope for the future. 

I beg to assure my friends of the State Teachers' Associa- 
tion that I appreciate most highly their words of welcome 
to-day. Nothing have I had more at heart during all these 
years than the cultivation of the closest relations between the 
University and the Schools. Nothing has been more helpful 
to the University than the cordiality with which the Schools 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 17 

have responded to our approaches to them. I believe that 
thus the Schools and the University have been able to render 
most valuable aid to each other, and so to make the Michigan 
system of public education worthy of the high commendation 
which it has so often elicited from competent observers. No- 
thing could give me higher satisfaction than to know that my 
sincere efforts to cooperate with the teachers in this valuable 
work have in their opinion been of any service. 

May I express my great gratification that you have invited 
representatives from our sister universities to be present with 
us to-day, and that so many of them have been kind enough 
to honor us with their presence. I have only fulfilled your 
desire in seeking by every means in my power to cultivate 
the most cordial relations with other colleges and universities. 
You have often heard me announce my belief that no good 
college or university hurts another good one. It is only the 
unworthy institution that cherishes envy of another. We 
have always tried to learn all that was profitable to us from 
every other university. We hope that by some wise and brave 
experiments we too have thrown light, which other institutions 
have been glad to gain, on certain problems of higher educa- 
tion. There is work enough for us all to do. Great has been 
the revolution in college methods and administration within 
my recollection. We gladly send our salutations to all the 
sisterhood of colleges and universities, and express our ardent 
desire to cooperate with them in all efforts to enhance the 
value of the higher education for this arid the coming gen- 
erations. 

And now, my friends, I hope it is not inappropriate for me 
to return my thanks to all who have evinced an interest, so 
unexpected to me, in the celebration of this day, to my two 
friends whose lofty verse and stately music are so happily 
married in the ode we are about to hear, to this concourse of 
my neighbors from this city, my beloved home, to the many 
citizens gathered here from all parts of this State, to the 
alumni from all sections of the country, to numerous college 
presidents who have sent me kindly messages, to the public 
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18 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

press of many cities and towns. I willingly believe that the 
interest in the celebration is mainly interest in the University. 
I greatly prefer that it should be so. But for the many gra- 
cious words and acts that I am compelled to interpret as words 
and acts of personal kindness to me, I am most humbly and 
profoundly grateful. 

I am deeply touched by the delicate but positive recognition 
in the Address of the services of my wife to the University. 
For her aid in unnumbered ways through all the vicissitudes 
of these years, especially in the social responsibilities which 
fall here upon the President's house, she is entitled to share 
with me to the full whatever honor this day can bring to me. 
In her name and in my own I beg to thank you. 

In the course of nature the day is not remote when some 
other man must take the official responsibility which has for a 
quarter of a century rested on me, and which has so greatly 
increased since I assumed it. I pray that he may be a stronger 
and wiser man than I have been. I am sure that the kind 
consideration which Regents and Faculties and students and 
the public have shown to me will make a strong and wise man 
more willing than he might otherwise be to accept the high 
and sacred trust. If such shall prove to be the fact, the cele- 
bration of this day will have amply justified itself. Mean- 
while, for myself, allow me to make my closing like my open- 
ing words, — thanks, thanks, my heartiest thanks. 

PROFESSOR GAYLEY'S ODE. 

I. 

The State. 

O State enthroned beside the triple sea, 

Embraced, embattled by his ageless arms, 
Accept our homage, and this strain that we 
With hearts attuned, in all humility. 
As prelude to thy seemlier praises offer thee, — 
And grant us grace to know thy glory, sing thy sovereign charms ! 

n. 



By forests towering absolute, 
By regions subterranean, mute, 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 19 

Where treasures sleep and shades obtain, 
Thy rivers haste ; by cedared bend, and lane 
Where sumachs hold their crimson reign, 

Through openings where maples shoot, 
By flock and herd and laboring wain, 

Through orchards bourgeoning for fruit 
They wind amain, — 
Through reaches yellowing to grain 
And village, field, and furrowed plain, 
Till leaping, singing, 
They win at last some harbor of the sea — 
Where ships at anchor swinging, 
And thousand belfries ringing. 
And court and market, render ceaselessly 
The service of themselves and all to thee. 
Like stars that stud the firmament, O State, 
Thy glories, but not these thou bidst us celebrate. 

m. 

O State enthroned beside the triple sea, 

Not all thy borders' rich emblazonry. 

Nor wealth, nor freedom most ennobles thee, — 

But thy Fairest — at whose knee 
We learn that heavenly learning is nobility. 

IV. 

The University. 

O Fair — 
Mother of Learning and immortal youth. 

My children call thee blessed, know thee wise. 
Whose smile is beauty, and whose eyes 
Benignant with the light of love and truth 

Enkindle hearts of men to high emprise. 
They call thee blessed, — yea, revere thee, most 
Because thou teachest, uttering not the boast. 

That with thy sons it lies 
To mould the ages, make them less uncouth — 
To point the people to the life above 
To tread the path of duty in the freedom that is love. 

V. 

O Fair 
In peace, in peril beautiful, — 
They found thee fairest whom thou gavest dutiful 



20 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

To Country and the Name ; 
Thy best and dearest who laid down 
The crown of myrtle for the crown 

Of sacrifice and sword and flame 
And Life that palters not with fate or fortune, fear or fame. 

VI. 

Unsure the thread of Fate, 
Uncertain Fortune's wheel, — 
Thine the presence ever-living. 
Thine the inspiration giving 
The courage of the Destiny thou dost reveal ! 
Unsure the thread of Fate, 
Uncertai|i Fortune's wheel, — 
But thy dwelling, gracious Mother — but thy Temple of the State 
Enshrines the Lamp, the living Fire, 
The Book of life and art and soul's desire. 
Ensures the Commonweal — 
And quickens unto service the souls whom thou dost seal. 

vn. 

The President. 

Few the souls afire with ardor of the living fire itself. 

Few the lives that stake no portion of eternity for pelf. 

Few the hearts that petty impulse, gusts of passion do not move. 

Few the men that walk the narrow way of wisdom that is love. 

Who would serve thee, sacred Mother, and preserve thee to the State, 

Chief est of thy servants, must be great ; 
Great in goodness, great in counsel, resolute and moderate, 
Serving not the time nor temper, moulding men for God and State, 
Fit himself to speak the nation's voice to nations and to arbitrate ; 
In the larger, never hasting purpose. 

Undisturbed 
In the faith that Right will blossom, and the times uncouth amend, 
And the vulgar babble languish, and the vain desire be curbed. 
If thy fortunes so are guided, have a statesman for their friend. 

Thy years descend ! 

vin. 

Star-like steady, radiant ready, seeing far and seeing right, 
Fire-like glowing, cheer bestowing, generous of heart and light — 
This the statesman-scholar whom we honor in his own despite ! 

Not his burning thoughts nor golden 

Eloquence alone embolden 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 21 

Us to heights with glory emit, 
But his bright example holden 
In the heart, unconscious, golden, 
Life on lives of others writ — 
Life that tells of longer life within, around, above, 
Life that treads the path of duty in the freedom that is love, . 
Life that knows the worth of life and shows the wealth of it. 
Vain the praises that we give him, 
Vain, unworthy to outlive him, 
For he recks of praises nothing, counts them neither fair nor fit: 
He who bears his honors lightly 

And whose age renews its zest — 
Lo, the maple, snowed upon, is sightly. 
And its sap runs best. 

IX. 

Honor to him, peace unto him, pointing us the way above, 
Love unto him, long life to him, whom no love of life can move ! 

Hardly shall we find another 
When he ceases, — 

May God grant thee such another 

Counselor, O Reverend Mother, 
When he ceases, — 

Grant us grieving one such other 

President and friend and brother 
Ripe in wisdom, just in judgment — whom the years revolving prove — 
Leading us the way of duty in the freedom that is love. 



DEAN MURRAY'S ADDRESS. 

It seems strange that only in recent years has the history 
of educational institutions received the attention it deserves. 
A search through our libraries would show that the orderly 
and complete records of the Continental and British univer- 
sities have appeared within the closing period of the nineteenth 
century. Anniversaries of their founding and occasions like 
the present have done much to stimulate research into their 
educational development. The part great universities abroad 
have been playing in the development of our civilization is 
now becoming understood. This is a hopeful sign. We hail 
it with joy. 



22 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The occasion which brings us together to-day has, therefore, 
a two-fold significance. Primarily, chiefly indeed, it is a per- 
sonal tribute to a distinguished educator, whose twenty-five 
years of service here have won for him a national renown. 
But it will also serve to fasten more widely public attention on 
the vast interests which centre in every such institution as the 
University of Michigan, charged as they are with contents so 
vital to the best things in life. 

In the " drum and trumpet " vein of history, the educator 
has had no full nor just recognition. Fewer lines have been 
given to John Colet than to the Rye-House Plot. In all Eng- 
land, there was but one man, John Milton, whose tract on 
education marks him as a forerunner of modern progressive 
views, himself indeed an educator as well as a poet, who clearly 
saw what Comenius represented to the world. We to-day 
understand for the first time the great services rendered by 
the Middle- Age universities to the world's progress. In them 
were the seeds of that progress, not in the cabals which plot- 
ted in every European court, not in the wretched wars which 
changed the map of the world and did not better its condition, 
not in the dreary theological disputes which racked the heads 
and hearts of men. And yet history has found her material 
mainly in such movements, and not in the silent but after all 
deeper forces which were slowly ripening in the schools. 

But the change has come. The great competitor which 
challenges recognition at the expense of our modern educa- 
tional development is the brilliant, surpassing material growth 
of our times, at once a sign of our progress and a menace 
to our nobler life. Yet there are indications that this is to 
become tributary to educational interests, illustrations of 
which you find in the care of its University by great States 
like Michigan, and by the consecration of private wealth to 
the upbuilding of sister institutions. East and West. 

There are, however, two great facts emerging to view as one 
looks over the whole field of educational progress. One is, 
that like any other great cause, religion, statecraft, philan- 
thropy, commercial enterprise, education must have its leaders. 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 23 

The other fact, and that which brings me to the specific duty 
you have assigned me, is that every great institution finds its 
successful growth dependent on its head. It is not too much 
to say that the fortunes of any educational institution will vary 
with the fitness of its chosen head to preside over its destinies. 
What then constitutes an ideal president for an institution 
like the University of Michigan ? He has been well described 
already in the eloquent address of Mr. Cocker, speaking for 
the Board of Regents, and in the beautiful tribute from the 
Senate presented by Dr. D'Ooge. What shall I say more ? 
First of all, he should be a scholar^ with all the noble instincts 
and aspirations and insight that only scholarship can give. I 
have great respect for business men so-called. But I cannot 
feel that the headship of a great educational institution can be 
wisely left to men who are simply eminent in business ability. 
The position demands far higher qualities, of which scholar- 
ship is chief and secures the ability to guide and develop edu- 
cational forces. The ideal president should be, too, a man of 
affairs, uniting with his scholarship administrative gifts. He 
should be endowed with the power and charm of public address, 
capable of attracting men by the affability which endows 
native strength with new force. He should be capable too of 
inspiring his Faculties with enthusiasm and uniting them in a 
common devotion to the interests of the institution they serve. 
If to these great gifts you add public influence gained by dis- 
tinguished public services, you have but to name one more 
element and you have the ideal university president. That ele- 
ment is an earnest and attractive religious character, the root 
and flower of all that is highest and best in man. And I need 
only add that the twenty-five years of his service here have 
shown that in President Angell the University of Michigan 
has been blest with the labors, as it gratefully recognizes, of 
the ideal university president. The secret of this great suc- 
cess was told in a few words by a distinguished physician of 
New York city, the late Dr. Ben Crosby : " President Angell," 
he said, " is a man of superb quality throughout." 

And therefore I bring to him and to you, the alumni and 



24 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUAETER-CENTENNIAL. 

friends of the University, the greetings of the Trustees and 
Faculty of Princeton College, soon to celebrate its hundred 
and fifty years of educational work, and to become in name as 
in fact Princeton University. The institution I have the 
honor to represent gladly recognizes the splendid services here 
done for higher education. Further, I bring to him and to 
you the salutations of his Alma Mater and mine, fond of him, 
proud of him, when nigh fifty years ago his scholarly attain- 
ments gave promise which he has fully redeemed. And, lastly, 

my friend of college days, 

" For we were nursed upon the seK-same hill," 

whose friendship has been to me through all the changes of 
life a blessed joy and strength, the mellow, sacred light of 
which gilds our closing years, I bring you my own heartfelt 
tribute. 

JUSTIN WINSOR'S ADDRESS. 

Two years ago Harvard recognized the twenty-fifth anni- 
versary of President Eliot, and he has commissioned me to 
extend to-day his and Harvard's congratulations. It is appro- 
priate for these two great universities of the country, one of 
the East and the other of the West, to exchange greetings. 
Harvard, under the burden of years, shows no trace of senility, 

1 believe ; and Michigan University stands even yet in its 
youth like an athletic giant prepared to go on to further con- 
quests. 

The President knows, and I know, but perhaps no one else 
in this assembly knows, how gladly at one time Harvard would 
have welcomed him to her service. That he decided to remain 
steadfast to your interest is the only solace we feel to-day for a 
lost opportunity. 

PROFESSOR CLARK'S ADDRESS. 

As the Chairman has kindly intimated, I am here in a two- 
fold character, — first, as a loyal adopted son and representa- 
tive of Yale, and secondly, as a loyal son of this University 
herself. 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. ' 25 

In my own eyes tlie only possible qualification I have, if 
any, to represent Yale on this memorable occasion is loyalty 
to both universities, and I could sincerely wish that she might 
have chosen for so pleasant and important a duty a son to 
the manor born, — one gifted in speech and conspicuous in 
achievement. But as her President has charged me with the 
duty, it must not be mine to reason why. I bring you then 
her hearty greetings and congratulations, and earnest assurance 
of her high estimation of what this University has wrought, 
I may say, from the very beginning, but especially of what she 
has so nobly and vigorously achieved under the preeminent 
and masterly leadership of the President whom you and we 
now so justly delight to publicly honor. 

The most notable features of the wonderful growth and pro- 
gress of the University under his administration of a quarter 
of a century have been so fittingly recounted by representa- 
tives of your own bodies, that I must not now allude to them 
further than to say that they cannot but have deeply impressed 
every careful student of educational and social progress in our 
land, and made it plain that this University during the period 
we commemorate has been a potent factor in our national ad- 
vancement ; and of her healthy action upon her elder sisters 
every one of them should be ready to testify, and doubtless is. 

The tribute of personal admiration which you have brought 
at this time to the accomplished gentleman and scholar, the 
able and skillful administrator, who has so long presided over 
the University and given such wise direction to its affairs and 
impetus to its progress, while as has often been remarked, at 
the same time bringing it additional distinction by his public 
services to the country, — we of Yale can most heartily appre- 
ciate, and there are still among our numbers some who came 
to admire him at an early period of his distinguished career, 
to whom it will be especially delightful. 

And now, President Angell, permit me both in my represent- 
ative character and for myself, as a son of Michigan, to con- 
gratulate you personally, not only upon the splendid success of 
your long administration and the loyal and devoted friendship 



26 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

of all the bodies of the University, which it has so firmly 
cemented, but also upon the health and strength — the well- 
nigh youthful vigor — you still enjoy, and which encourages 
in us such hopes for its continuance. And finally, in conclud- 
ing these congratulations, allow me to unite with the gentle- 
men who have preceded me in offering you the homage of the 
heart. 

PRESIDENT DRAPER'S ADDRESS. 

The committee charged with the arrangements for this 
event, and which invited me to come and bring the greetings 
and kindly wishes of other State Universities, had the foresight 
to signify the hope that I would bring with me the ability to 
express their congratulations in not more than fifteen minutes 
of time. It was asking a great deal ; but when the celebration 
was to be so significant, the friends so numerous, and the con- 
gratulations so abundant, as it was known they would be, 
there was no occasion for an apology for the imposition of a 
time limit upon individual speakers. In that, your committee 
only exemplified anew the worldly wisdom of the University of 
Michigan. 

It has been related that very late in the life of Mr. Emer- 
son, when his mind had almost failed and life itself was just 
flickering in the socket, he was visited at Concord by Dr. 
Oliver WendeU Holmes. They walked together in the garden 
in this glorious month of June. In a half-conscious state Mr. 
Emerson passed myriads of flowers until they came upon an 
American Beauty rose, more exquisite and stately than all the 
rest. It caught his attention and started his enthusiasm into 
life again. Straightening himself, the grand old man removed 
his hat with dignity ; then, turning to his friend and pointing 
to the flower, he said : " I feel like taking off my hat to it, 



sir." 



No one interested in higher education can go up and down 
the earth without instinctively removing his hat when he 
comes to the University of Michigan. The first time I really 
came into contact with it was when, years ago, as State Super- 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 27 

intendent of the Empire State and ex officio a trustee of Cor- 
nell University, I ran against so large a section of your Uni- 
versity as is represented in the persons of Presidents Andrew 
Dickson White and Charles Kendall Adams. You will not 
deny that you were represented in a way to challenge my ad- 
miration at once. Since then I have been in some trouble, for 
I have learned that you are so much in evidence upon the 
earth that, if one is to follow the chivalric example of Mr. 
Emerson, he will have to stand with his hat in his hand a good 
part of the time. 

But the fact that the University of Michigan has grown 
strong and great is not her chief glory. So much might be 
said of others. Much more may be said of her. She has 
been a pioneer in world history. She was the first realization 
of Washington's dream and of Jefferson's plan. Of all the 
unique characteristics of the American free-school system, none 
is more typical of American thought, none goes farther to 
exemplify the American spirit in the world, than that one 
which has had its marked development in recent years and in 
the States of the centre and the West ; which has made State 
Universities as much a part of that system as are the ele- 
mentary schools ; which has gained for these universities the 
support and made them the pride of the people ; which has 
adapted their work to life's real conditions ; which has made 
a smooth and continuous road from the primary school up to 
and through them ; and which arouses an ambition on the 
part of the sons and daughters of the multitudes to follow that 
road to the end. In that great movement the University of 
Michigan led the way, and she led it so steadily and strongly, 
so bravely and so cheerily, that she has gained the respect of 
all the world, and easily become much more than the most con- 
spicuous institution and the chief glory of the Commonwealth 
whose name she bears. 

No other testimony can speak the praise of an individual so 
strongly, and probably none so properly and so acceptably, as 
evidence of the esteem in which the world holds the work he 
has performed. The circumstances and life of the people, the 



28 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

minds and hearts of managers, instructors, and students, aU go 
to determine the life of a university. But we all know how 
the life in the executive office exerts an influence above and 
beyond that of any other. If incapable of leadership, the term 
is short ; if it makes for peace, it moulds the whole mass ; if 
it promotes health and growth, it pours its qualities into the 
lives of all the rest. 

I have little knowledge of the details of your University 
history. The names of Tappan, and Haven, and others are 
familiar, and we all know how deserving they are of our grate- 
ful remembrance. But a later name has occupied the first 
place twice as long as any other. That one was among the 
first, if it was not the first, of a new style and order of men in 
the college presidencies of the country. But its success has 
been so marked, qualities for which it stands have been so 
potent in institutional development, that, when an opening 
now occurs in any college or university, little consideration 
is given to any name which is not to be found somewhere in 
its general class. 

Coming to this presidency, not in the late years of an 
honored life, but in vigorous young manhood, James B. Angell 
brought with him zeal and enthusiasm, sympathy with the 
young and interest in their ambitions, a knowledge of the 
world's affairs, and a keen appreciation of, and undoubting 
confidence in, the inevitable trend of modern life. He has 
kept in touch with the world and in close sympathy with its 
people. He has reveled in and he has enriched its literature. 
He has written much, and his writings have stimulated all the 
higher interests of humanity. The time which you have 
allowed him to give to the diplomatic service of the nation has 
been of great value to the public interests at once and directly ; 
but it has been of much greater indirect value because of the 
extent to which it sharpened his thought and opened the way 
for his influence, in all the succeeding years, upon the affairs 
of his country, and upon her interdependent relations with 
the other nations of the world. It brought very high returns 
to you in a still larger, broader, stronger life, which was to be 



EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 29 

even more controlling in making a stronger, truer, higher life 
for you. He has stood for a symmetrical and complete public 
educational system ; he has been a valued factor, and made 
your University a still more important factor, indeed a leading 
and historic factor, in the evolution of such a system. Per- 
haps better than all, his spirit has been at peace with the 
world, at one with its Maker, attuned to the harmony of the 
skies. And year after year these attributes of his individu- 
ality, as they have grown riper and richer, have been bravely 
and cheerily shaping the character, framing and declaring the 
policy, widening the influence and determining the status, of 
the University of Michigan. 

All of the State Universities extend to your President and 
your University their heartiest greetings upon this silvery 
anniversary. All remember and testify of the courteous visits, 
frequently at no little inconvenience to himself, and the stimu- 
lating suggestions of your President in their own work ; and 
all bear witness to the leading and helpful influence of your 
great institution in their affairs. All send you congratula- 
tions, not only upon what has been and what is, but also upon 
the excellent promise of what is to be. 

I have observed this morning, with some little irritation to 
my sensibilities, something of a disposition to make frequent 
and perhaps doleful reference to the fact that we are all grow- 
ing old, and that some time we shall have an account with 
Nature which we shall be called upon to settle. I came up to 
a celebration, not to a memorial service ; and a celebration it 
shall be. There is nothing here to make a memorial service 
out of, if we were to try it. It is an anniversary of a most 
consequential event in the history of this institution, a celebra- 
tion of noble accomplishments, a public and glad testimonial 
of the fact that the heights of successful leadership have been 
attained by a man and by an institution, in serenity of mind, 
in perfect health, and amid the universal acclaim and the un- 
limited commendation of the multitude. 

Now may the fruits be enjoyed, and the resulting conse- 
quences be unfolded and enforced ! May good health, long 



30 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

life, and many years hence a serene, youthful old age, en- 
riched by the support of the innumerable lives he has helped 
and by honors he has earned, be the gracious lot of President 
Angell ! May the University, under the continued influence of 
his benign leadership, mount upon its own achievements to 
higher and still higher things ; may there be other anniver- 
saries of even greater significance, and may we be there to 
help them on ! 

COMMISSIONER HARRIS'S ADDRESS. 

While the United States as a whole feels interest in the 
prosperity of the State of Michigan, and in each county and 
township of Michigan, yet it cannot regard the prosperity of 
Michigan University as in any sense a local interest. In 
many ways the history of this University has been the history 
of higher education for a large portion of the Union. 

For Michigan was the first to demonstrate that an institu- 
tion founded by the government of a State, and dependent on 
the legislature for a large portion of its support, can gather 
in its Faculty a corps of professors thoroughly cultured in all 
branches of human learning ; and, more than this, that it can 
demand and secure of its students a high standard of prepara- 
tion, and a thorough mastery of the college course, as a condi- 
tion of receiving its diploma of graduation. 

Other States in this great Northwest have seen the mag- 
nificent achievements of the people of Michigan, and have 
followed its lead to a high success. But Michigan was the 
pioneer, and solved on its way those problems that beset 
higher education which arise when it depends upon the will 
of the masses of the people, themselves not participant in the 
advantages of higher education and sometimes jealous of its 
influence. 

This University has shown what higher education can do 
for secondary and elementary education, lifting it up to the 
required standard, stimulating each ambitious youth to avail 
himself of the opportunities extended to him in the free public 
school system crowned with a university at the summit. 



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EXERCISES IN UNIVERSITY HALL. 31 

It was the disciple of Thomas Jefferson, A. B. Woodward, 
appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of 
Michigan, who, in his zeal for his master's idea of a State Uni- 
versity, procured the adoption of the law first establishing such 
an institution, five years before a similar law was enacted in 
Virginia. Although the pedantry of its Greek nomenclature 
has drawn ridicule upon the scheme of Judge Woodward, yet 
the idea of an all-round system of learning has exercised an 
educative effect on the people of Michigan ever since its pro- 
mulgation. 

The fortunes of the University have attracted about it as a 
nucleus a series of remarkable men, such as Isaac E. Crary, 
John D. Pierce, Asa Gray the botanist, Henry Philip Tappan, 
Erastus Otis Haven, Henry Simmons Frieze. These names 
are precious in the history of education. Before Massachu- 
setts had established a board of education, — before it had 
appointed its great secretary, Horace Mann, — John D. Pierce 
held the office of State Superintendent of Schools in Michigan. 
With him came a new impulse towards realizing the lofty 
ideal of a university which had already existed twenty years, 
on paper, in this State. 

There should always be named to the honor of this Univer- 
sity the introduction of seminary instruction in history and 
kindred topics, a skillful adaptation of a European method, 
by Professor Charles Kendall Adams. On this has been 
founded the second stage of higher education, that of post- 
graduate study, which is now growing so rapidly over the coun- 
try, especially from the centres of Harvard, Cornell, Johns 
Hopkins, Chicago, and Wisconsin. The seminary and labora- 
tory, so early developed here, furnish the means of original 
investigation, and it is this that makes post-graduate courses 
worth the time of the student. The future of higher education 
in the United States is to be closely bound up with the work 
of the seminary and the laboratory. 

For these and many other important movements initiated 
here, — such as the credit system, the diploma relation, coedu- 
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32 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

for all these things the other States, nay, the nation itself, holds 
in high regard Michigan University, and claims it as of the 
whole people, and not of Michigan locally. It rejoices with 
you to-day in celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
ripe scholar who has presided here in these later years of 
phenomenal growth in numbers and in power. It claims Dr. 
Angell especially as one of the ablest members of its diplo- 
matic reserve corps, borrowing his wisdom and learning, as 
occasion needs, to sit on its treaty commissions or represent 
the general government at foreign courts. 

President Angell is always to be remembered by students of 
sociology for the great work he did during the time of our 
civil war, and just previous, in the way of creating the great 
daily newspaper, — in making it the educator of the people 
that it has become; in making it the generative process of 
Public Opinion. For we are more and more governed by 
Public Opinion, and it is the newspaper that makes possible 
its formation, leading it through a progressive development 
out of the stage of mere first impulse on to a deliberate com- 
parison of grounds and reasons, and finally deepening the 
thought to a contemplation of causes. By this the mind of 
the people arrives at conviction in the place of mere impulse. 

This converts the newspaper into an instrument of school 
extension by which all people continue their education, and it 
forms a sort of national council by which contradictory feelings 
and prejudices become purified and adjusted into wisdom. 
This makes a great republic possible ; hence the newspaper is 
not secondary to the school in this country and throughout the 
world. 

I congratulate you, on this the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
his presidency, in the possession of a scholar, a wise adminis- 
trative officer, a member of that national diplomatic council 
that will preserve our peace with foreign nations, and a pro- 
moter of the daily newspaper to higher fields of usefulness. 



THE KESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 



PRESIDENT ANGELL'S RESPONSE. 

I NEED hardly say that my heart is overflowing with grati- 
tude to you all to-day ; but will you allow me to confess, with 
some frankness, that it is with hesitation and shrinking that 
I have seen this day approach ? for I have felt that I was so 
utterly unworthy of the demonstrations which you are making 
to-day. If I had not been persuaded by my good friends 
that in some manner this demonstration might inure to the 
benefit of the University, I hope that it is not ungracious nor 
ungrateful for me to say that I should have much preferred 
that it should be omitted. But I certainly should be more or 
less than human not to be touched in my inmost heart by the 
manifestation that has been made to-day. I know not how 
to better express my emotions than by quoting the words 
of Voltaire, who, on his return to Paris in his old age, when 
he was so cordially received by many old friends, exclaimed. 
On rrCetouffe des roses (they suffocate me with roses). I 
suppose that it is proper and perhaps is expected that the few 
words which I shall speak now should pertain more especially 
to my personal relations to the University. If they do, 1 trust 
you will acquit me in advance of any appearance of egotism. 

I was called to my present position in 1869. I then made 
a visit to the University. On my return to the University of 
Vermont, I found that the friends of that institution, who had 
raised an endowment fund, would be greatly disappointed if 
I did not remain long enough to assist in the distribution of 
the fund. I therefore at once declined the invitation to Michi- 
gan. Two years later the Regents renewed the invitation, 
and by that time the University of Vermont had made such 
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34 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

progress that I felt free to leave it. While, with much em- 
barrassment, I was debating the question in my own mind 
whether I should come here, I fell in with a friend who had 
very large business interests, and he made this very suggestive 
remark to me : " Given the long lever, it is no harder to lift a 
big load than it is with a shorter one to lift a smaller load." 
I decided to try the end of the long lever. 

I was forty-two when I came here, and I supposed that, if 
I should prove equal to the task, I might fairly hope to be of 
some service to the University for at least ten years, or per- 
haps fifteen. I think I can unhesitatingly say that from that 
moment all my aspirations were directed towards the upbuild- 
ing of this institution. It is true that I have been occasionally 
drafted into the public service by Presidents of the United 
States ; but I have never suffered myself to yield to this draft 
until the Regents themselves had expressed the opinion that it 
would be beneficial to the University that I should do so. I 
may now say here, what I have never said before, that I have 
several times been called to other universities and other fields 
of labor, under the temptation of larger salary, but I have 
never given ear to any of the calls, because I have always felt 
that so long as you desired me here and my presence was 
useful, I preferred to remain with you. 

I may mention as a cause of sincere gratitude to God that, 
during all these years of my life here, I have been in the 
enjoyment of excellent health; and what I wish to say for the 
encouragement of some of my younger friends, and perhaps 
rather a remarkable thing to say, is that since I entered 
college in the year 1845, with the exception of six years of 
editorial life, I have been constantly engaged, either as a stu- 
dent or as a teacher, in college, and from that time till now 
I believe that I have never been obliged by illness to miss a 
recitation or a regular appointment. 

When I came here, good Doctor Frieze, I suppose drawing 
his prophecy from his experience of two years as acting Presi- 
dent, said to me : " You will often find cares and anxieties 
running over your head mountain high, but," he added with 



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sympa jhy and kindness, " I believe you will emerge from 
them.'-i These cares, I need not say, liave greatly increased 
with jnie growth of the University ; but if I refer to them 
briefly ou passing, do not suppose that my life has not been 
fillet wjth joys. The delightful companionship of these 
friends ofvmine ; the deepening interest of the State in the 
Univ/jrsity, its continuous and rapid growth, its increasing 
fame ^ven Leyond the seas ; the enthusiasm and affection and 
success of tliese thousands of students ; the cordiality and de- 
votion of our alumni, many of whom graduated before my 
time ; the visions which I have of the greatness and power of 
this University fifty years, a century hence, — these have daily 
thrilled^ my heart with rapture and flooded my pathway with 
sunshine. And now you have come to crown all these joys 
with tb " k beautiful tribute of your affection and esteem to-day. 
Appreciative as I am of all your kindness, and grateful as 
I am for all the kind wishes that have been or may be ex- 
pressed, I beg to assure you that if this celebration shall re- 
dound to the benefit of the University, and shall increase the 
devotion of the alumni to it, and the pride of the State in it, 
it will be the supremest joy which this day brings to my heart. 
I, and even my younger colleagues, must soon pass away, but 
the University goes on forever. It is far more than any one 
man, — more than all of us together. If there is any one word 
that I wish to say, in addition to the word of thanks to-day, 
it is this : Work for the perpetuity of this University ; per- 
suade the legislatures, persuade the people of the State, per- 
suade all generous-minded men, to plan for the perpetuity of 
this great University. If there is any lesson that history 
teaches, it is that, next to the church, the most enduring and 
beneficent agencies are the great universities of the world. 
During the past four hundred years, kings and emperors have 
appeared and disappeared, dynasties have risen and fallen, 
the map of Europe has been made and remade ; but the great 
universities like Bologna, Paris, and Oxford stand to-day 
fresh in eternal youth, pouring out their fertilizing streams 
of learning in an unceasing flood. Is it not the most natural 



36 PKESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTEE-CENTENNIAlj 

tiling for every one of us to believe that, after our children 
and our children's children shall have passed away, this Uni- 
versity shall still be pouring out her streams of bl' ^ings, 
wider and deeper, over the State, the nation, and thr^ world? 
We may indeed be thankful that we have been allowed to toil 
for her in these her early years. Happy are you wh^> have 
the honor of calling yourselves her sons and daughters ; i long 
and noble line will follow you. The imagination fails to con- 
ceive what shall be the glory, the power, and infl,aence ,of the 
University of Michigan one hundred years hence. 1 only 
know that, with one heart and one voice, all of us here, and the 
thousands of sons and daughters of this Univerr>ity who are 
scattered over the earth to-day, — all of them f jL'e ^ready to 
join with me in shouting, £Jsto perpetua ! j 

EX-REGENT WILLARD'S RESPONSE. 

While the sentiment just announced seems to convey a hint 
that I am to be the Nestor of this occasion and deal in remi- 
niscence, I shall endeavor to keep in mind the danger of pro- 
lixity incident to such a role. It need scarcely be said in this 
presence that it is one of my proudest recollections that I 
had a part, as member of the Board of Regents, in calling Dr. 
Angell to the presidency of the University. It is assuredly a 
great satisfaction to witness this conspicuous recognition of 
the wisdom of the choice then made. 

My first official connection with the University was on the 
first of January, 1864, when, under a new provision of the 
State constitution, a Board of Regents entered upon duty 
who, with one exception, were all new members. It may seem 
strange, but it was nevertheless true, that we regarded the 
University at that time as a somewhat old institution, though 
it had measured but two decades of its history. We thought 
it a very large institution, with a roll of students numbering 
about one third of the present matriculation list, and with 
only one fifth of the present enrollment in its Faculties ; and, as 
my memory goes back to a still earlier period when the insti- 



THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 37 

tution was in its infancy, and notes the contrast presented by 
this great assemblage of alumni and other representatives of 
the University, and the distinguished educators from all parts 
of our great country who have come to bring their congratu- 
lations upon an event which so notably suggests its prosperity 
and growth, I am reminded of a little incident which occurred 
in my boyhood, and which has its chief title to mention from 
the two eminent citizens of our State with whom it is asso- 
ciated. Away back early in the " forties," at a state tem- 
perance convention held in the then little village of Marshall, 
one of the prominent questions under discussion was the 
location of the state temperance monthly paper. A young 
Methodist clergyman, then unknown to fame, but who after- 
wards became one of the most influential leaders in his denom- 
ination, dilated with great eloquence upon the importance of 
•having the paper removed from Detroit to Marshall, the centre 
of the State, when a tall, slim young lawyer from the Detroit 
delegation rose to reply. He said the gentleman last up, 
in claiming Marshall as the centre of Michigan, was much 
like the boy he had known on a farm next to his father's in 
Vermont. The unsophisticated country lad went out one day 
into the pasture, and, while reclining upon the grass, looked 
up at the sky, and in a tone of astonishment exclaimed, " I 
swan ! I never knew before that dad's farm was right in the 
middle of the world." The incident will perhaps be more 
fully appreciated when I say that the participants in this 
discussion were the Rev. Dr. Elijah H. Pilcher and the Hon. 
William A. Howard, both of whose names are indelibly im- 
printed upon the history of our State. I am certain that if 
these distinguished men, who were always among the Universi- 
ty's nearest friends and champions, were now living, and were 
with us here to-day, they would both agree that the institution 
which has become so fully an object of our state pride has also 
become much more completely a literary and educational 
centre in our American world than they ever dreamed. 

Upon the resignation of President Haven in 1869 the 
Regents began to look out for a successor. We had one or 



38 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

two meetings for tlie purpose of selection, but, no satisfac- 
tory names being suggested, it was determined tbat a com- 
mittee of three of our number should make a tour through the 
Eastern States, especially New England, to interview leading 
educators, to visit some of the principal colleges, to inquire 
concerning certain prominent men suggested for the position, 
and to report the results of the investigation to the Board. 
My associates on the committee were Regents J. M. B. Sill, 
now United States Minister to Corea, and J. Eastman Johnson, 
of Centreville. We proceeded eastward together as far as 
Albany, where Regent Johnson left on a separate tour, while 
Professor Sill and myself went to New York city. After two 
or three days' search for information in that metropolis, we 
went to New Haven. 

Our chief purpose in visiting Yale was to make inquiry 
concerning a person especially recommended to us by the late 
Professor Frieze as undoubtedly possessing the right qualifi- 
cations for the place we sought to fill, — President Angell 
of the University of Vermont. First interviewing President 
Woolsey, clariim et venerahile nomen, we were put upon the 
right track for reaching the object of our search. He said : 
" I am not in direct touch with the younger men in college 
work, and feel unable properly to meet your inquiries, though 
I can say that Dr. Angell has acquired, for so young a man, 
a very fine reputation, and would unquestionably make an 
efficient head of your University." He then referred us to 
Professor Noah Porter, who was afterward President Woolsey's 
successor. From him we had a hearby welcome, and to the 
subject of our inquiry he replied : " I do not know of any 
man in New England so well fitted for the presidency of the 
University of Michigan as Dr. Angell, and there is one nigh 
at hand who can give you the most complete knowledge of his 
qualifications. Professor George P. Fisher of our Yale, 
Professor Diman of Brown University, and President Angell 
are a kind of trinity here in New England, and if you see 
Professor Fisher you will be able to determine the prospect 
of securing Dr. Angell." So he ran out bareheaded with us 



THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 39 

over the little lawn to the residence of Professor Fisher, who 
gave us a most favorable account of Dr. Angell's qualities, 
his intellectual force, his accurate scholarship, his executive 
ability, his genial personality, and his experience in affairs, con- 
cluding with the declaration that in his acceptance of a call 
to our University we might regard ourselves as extremely for- 
tunate. It may well be imagined that by this time we had 
^become quite certain that we had hit upon the right clue for 
obtaining the object of our search. 

We pursued our way, and on a Saturday afternoon of a 
warm summer day arrived at Burlington. When we were as- 
signed to our rooms at the hotel, which looked out upon Lake 
Champlain and the distant Adirondacks, I for one began se- 
riously to reflect upon the purpose of our mission. We had 
come there to remain for a few days perfectly incognito, with 
an object that seemed very much like an invasion of the most 
dearly cherished institution of the place. We had come in 
the character of spies into that peaceful valley, with the inten- 
tion of taking from it the man in whom the pride of its people 
had been centred. My own feelings in the affair were all the 
more intensified as our clandestine operations were conducted 
on the soil of my native State and county. It was, on the 
whole, a very unpleasant feeling, for which the only compensa- 
tion was the high service that we felt we were rendering to our 
own Commonwealth of Michigan. The next day we heard 
President Angell deliver his baccalaureate for Commencement 
week, and you all know Dr. Angell's baccalaureates ; to say 
that we were charmed would inadequately express our admira- 
tion. We both said, " There is the man we seek ; " but we 
thought it best to interview some of the leading citizens of 
Burlington, among others United States Senator Edmunds, 
who said : " Gentlemen, President Angell is all your fancy has 
painted ; he would undoubtedly be the right man for you in 
Michigan, but we cannot spare him from Vermont." So we 
began to realize that we were confronted with a contest be- 
tween the State of Vermont and the State of Michigan. We 
returned. Dr. Angell was invited to the presidency of Michi- 



40 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

gan University. He visited the institution, and made an im- 
pression upon the Faculty and the citizens of Ann Arbor 
which only gave intensity to the desire for his acceptance. 
But the Board were destined to be rejected suitors for the 
time. 

The vacant presidential chair in the University was tempo- 
rarily and ably filled by Professor Frieze, who had been elected 
Acting President, but who like Csesar put away the crown 
and refused to become permanent President ; and when, after 
an interval of a year and a half, it was learned that perhaps 
Dr. Angell might favorably entertain a proposal to become 
the head of the University, I had the good fortune to open a 
correspondence with him which resulted in his presenting 
the terms of his acceptance. Finally, in February, 1871, the 
proposition was laid before the Board of Regents, and he was 
promptly and unanimously elected, to the signal satisfaction 
of the University Faculty and the friends of the institution 
throughout the State. 

Dr. Angell, in our conference at Burlington, had desired to 
know just what relation our University held to the State. He 
frankly said : " State universities have not always been a suc- 
cess. What have you to say for your own in that regard?" 
I said to him in reply that the relation of the University to 
the State, in Michigan, was somewhat unlike that held by 
other universities to their respective States ; that the Consti- 
tution of our State had conferred the control of the University 
upon a Board of Regents elected especially for that purpose, 
and that they were its real legislature. I also endeavored 
to point out the accepted theory in the internal management 
of the institution, — that it was conformed to the old motto on 
the seal of Michigan Territory, Fit surculus arhor ; that the 
University was something planted with a design to grow and 
develop of itself, without depending wholly upon outward di- 
rection. I endeavored to show further that our Board of Re- 
gents was a body of agreeable, self-sacrificing gentlemen, who 
were supposed by the people who elected them to generally 
confirm the decrees of the University Senate ; that the several 



THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 41 

Faculties and local administrators of the institution were its 
real managers ; that the eight Regents — and I desire to say 
nothing disparaging to the really valuable service rendered by 
them in their own sphere — were not merely a great conven- 
ience as lictors to accompany the President and to ornament 
the platform on Commencement Day, but were extremely use- 
ful as a shield and protector of the University in its normal 
development. 

The Regents from the beginning have generally pursued the 
policy of refraining from too much intermeddling with the in- 
ternal management of the institution. While they have aided 
in securing a proper recognition by the State of its obligations 
to provide for its needs, and have had the duty of electing the 
professors and other officers of the institution, and have also 
had the unpleasant task of occasional decapitation turned over 
to them, yet the principle that the University is to be devel- 
oped right here upon the soil on which it is planted — that 
it is to have a regular growth like a tree, and is not made 
like a house — has been accepted as a guiding law of its 
administration. 

In closing, let me say that this University has stood forth 
for the past generation among the agencies of higher culture 
as a sort of pioneer. It has been a seeker of unexplored fields. 
In all Europe to-day you do not find its like, and thirty years 
ago and less, in all America, it occupied a place apart from all 
others in its advanced position. In many respects, which I 
need not enumerate, it has led the way ; it has been copied by 
others, but still remains the real original from which they have 
taken their new departure. Its special province has been in 
the line of exploration ; it has been constantly inspired with 
a desire to push its banner upon new territory. More than 
any other University in its time, it has been inspired with the 
lofty purpose of the great pioneer explorer who, with his Qye 
comrades in their bark canoe two hundred and sixteen years 
ago, passed over the waters of the river Huron that runs at its 
feet. In the early spring of 1680 this explorer led the first 
band of white men across the lower Michigan peninsula, skirt- 



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42 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

ing the present site of our University, which so fully exempli- 
fies the spirit of pioneer conquest by which he was animated. I 
would like to see on the University campus a suitable monument 
erected to the memory of La Salle, the greatest of all Ameri- 
can discoverers since Columbus, not only because he spent 
seven months of his valuable life within the borders of our 
State, but still more because he represents the genius of the 
University in the unconquerable resolution by which he sought 
regions unknown. As Search for Truth has been so impres- 
sively shown by Lessing to be far more worthy of our desire 
than Truth itself, so, when the statues of other distinguished 
men shall adorn the University grounds, let there be among 
them a remembrance of the renowned explorer of the Huron, 
which, like the Cam, the Isis, the Seine, and other rivers of 
the Old World, is entitled to notice from the University lo- 
cated upon its banks ; and all the more since this institution 
reflects in such an eminent degree the spirit of the dauntless 
pioneer who utilized the stream on which it is situated for 
discovery and for the extension of the area of civilization, — a 
purpose for which the University so distinctly stands, and 
which gives especial significance to this public, and, I may add, 
magnificent tribute to its honored President at the close of 
a quarter of a century of faithful and signally distinguished 
service. 

MR. HAZARD'S RESPONSE. 

My sole reason for standing here is, that I am a friend of 
President Angell ; and that friendship runs back for a good 
many years. It is twenty-five years older than his presidency. 
I well remember a day in January, 1846, when I entered the 
old chapel at Brown University, and took m)'' seat in the fresh- 
man class for the first time : the first term of the year I had 
not been there, — I had been pursuing a partial course ; but 
that morning — a cold, dark morning — I went and took my 
seat in the freshman class, and President Angell (the gentle- 
man who sits here now was not President then) came forward 
and greeted me in the most cordial manner. I shall never f or- 



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THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNEE. 43 

get the kindly spirit which animated him then, and that same 
spirit is the spirit which has animated him always through life 
up to the present time, — the spirit which has made him a 
power in this University and this State ; and I wish to say 
that that genial spirit is one of the great powers which we 
should cultivate, and one which he has cultivated so success- 
fully. I remember very well that occasion, — we were boys 
then ; the remembrance of that time comes over me ; and as I 
look back with pride upon all that he has done, I feel a pleas- 
ure in shining by such reflected light. I am proud that I be- 
long to the same State that he did, to the same college that he 
did, that we together have gone on through life for these last 
fifty years as firm friends, and hope we shall continue so to the 
end. I will not congratulate you on what he has accomplished 
here. You all know it, you all see it ; but we have here in 
him this expression of that genial power which has been felt 
through all this land ; and, while I mourn that he has left the 
State of Rhode Island, I congratulate you that his light shines 
here, and hope it may continue to shine. 

EX-EEGENT CUTCHEON'S RESPONSE. 

You will excuse me if I stand among the boys while I 
speak ; we are here, — the boys of '61. When I was invited 
to respond on this occasion, I was advised that the sentiment 
to which I was desired to speak would be, " The Duty of the 
Alumnus to his Alma Mater." " Duty " is a great word, — one 
of the greatest in our language. Duty implies reciprocal 
relations, — that which is due from one to another. It implies 
that the one has done something for the other, for which the 
other is to respond in duty. It is first cousin to that other 
great word, " ought." And now, speaking of definitions, what 
is an " alumnus " ? I took pains to look up the definition, 
and I find that it comes from a Latin word meaning 
"nourished." What, then, is the duty of the nourished son 
to the nourishing mother ? I will say, first, that the great 
duty is to love her, — the same as the duty of the natural son 



44 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUAETER-CENTENNIAL. 

to the natural motlier ; and strongest and most potent in the 
breasts of the alumni is the sentiment 6f love to this nourish- 
ing mother. We come not back here as boys come back to a 
boarding-house, where they have paid so much a week for their 
hash ; we come back as to a fireside and an altar. And what 
is this great University ? We heard it explained this morn- 
ing. It is not these grounds, these buildings ; it is not these 
trees, although we come to love all these : it is a love for the 
men that have taught here, for our classmates and our college- 
mates. That is the University, — the men. That is what 
brings us back here on these annual occasions. So I say that 
the first duty we owe to the mother is to love her, to cherish 
her, to stand by her. And then another duty of all the boys 
to the Alma Mater, as we go out and scatter through this State 
and throughout the nation and the world, is to support her, — 
to provide for her. We are her children. Is her roof getting 
too narrow ? Make it larger. Let us see to it that this Uni- 
versity is cared for ; let us see to it that the State of Michigan 
is true to the University of Michigan. Another duty of the 
alumnus is to look out for and protect the good name and the 
fair fame of our nourishing mother. Do men assail her ? Do 
they complain of the taxation necessary for her support ? 
Then it is the duty of her alumni to stand up and defend her, 
and say that it is from this fountain that the stream flows out 
which irrigates, not Michigan alone, but the whole Northwest. 
That is a duty that we owe, and it makes no difference whether 
the attack comes from above or below, it is the duty of a son 
or daughter of this University to stand up in any presence and 
say that this University has been worth more to the State of 
Michigan than the State of Michigan has been worth to this 
University. 

A further duty that we owe, my sisters and my brothers, is 
to come back once in a while and see the old lady. Come 
back once in a while and look upon her dear old face again. 
When I came on the campus in '57 as a freshman, only 
thirteen classes had gone out from the University. She was 
then a young University, and she cannot be very old now, for 



THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 45 

I am a good deal of a boy still. We don't come back here 
often enough. The Dean has referred to the fact that at one 
time 1 had the honor to be a member of the Board of Eegents. 
I cannot boast, like Regent Willard, that I was the man who 
brought President Angell here. I had, however, the great 
pleasure of being one of those who gave him leave to go out to 
China and bear the name of this University around the world. 
Why, my friends, of all the Regents, and of the teaching 
corps, there is not a single soul here to-day that was here when 
we boys of '61 entered. They have passed on. We are all 
passing on ; and it is your duty to come back and see those 
who remain from time to time. When I first came on these 
grounds, there was just the old north college and the old south 
college, four professors' residences, the old medical college, 
and part of a laboratory. When I came upon the campus to- 
day with my youngest boy, who graduates to-morrow, there was 
very little that I could point out that was here when I first 
came. And although there is a great swarm of young children 
gathered about her knees, I know the old mother is glad to 
see the boys whose heads are white. 

I may name some of the men who had much to do in the 
making of this University. In the Faculty was the stately 
Tappan, now buried in his far-off grave ; good old Professor 
Williams, who in after years used to come down to the Board 
of Regents to shake hands with his " boys," as he said ; and 
there was the accomplished Frieze, — all are gone. And soon 
we, too, shall be gone, but the mother will remain. This 
brings me to the last duty to the Alma Mater, and that is, 
by and by, to remember her in your will. 

MRS. TURNER'S RESPONSE. 

I am reminded on this occasion that, for over half a cen- 
tury, sons of Michigan have been looking back upon this 
institution with pride as their Alma Mater. But if this be 
true of her sons, how much more so during later years has 
Michigan University been a fostering mother to her daughters ! 



46 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The feeling which they cherish for her is not one of pride only, 
but of the deepest love and gratitude. For has she not wel- 
comed and cared for these daughters with an especial favor ? 
Shb offered them the long-wished-for opportunity to prove that 
they could cope with something beyond the " three r's," the 
trivium of their mothers and grandmothers. She has spread out 
before them the vast field of knowledge, with the invitation that 
whoever would might and could. If some of us have not yet 
passed the danger-signal of a little learning, long ago set up by 
the English poet, it has been our own fault, not that of our 
Alma Mater. And when she has bidden her daughters adieu, 
and sent them forth into life's great issues, has it not been with 
a blessing most tender and effective ? To exorcise any ghost- 
like problem of the waning century, into the ear of each, as to 
some hesitating Horatio, her spirit has breathed the command : 
" Thou art a scholar, speak to it." Her parting gift, the well- 
earned credential, has been in itself an open sesame to posts 
of usefulness and honor before hardly dreamed of ; and the 
very enjoyments of life have been made richer and more mani- 
fold by reason of the discipline and the development acquired 
here. We learned (and is not this the chief object of study ?) 
that all the " ologies " whatsoever but help to render infinite 
the possibilities of being, and that true education ends only 
with life. 

Moreover, doubly fortunate are we, in that it has been our 
high privilege to enjoy for a quarter of a century the inspira- 
tion of a living exemplar of the higher education in the person 
of him who is the Presiding Genius of our University, in 
whom the virtues that elevate are so happily blended with the 
graces that adorn, the Christian gentleman and scholar, — 
one whom it is our pleasure to admire, our pride to emulate, 
our delight to honor. Skilled, however, not only in the inter- 
pretation of the printed page, but of the human as well, with 
what wisdom, and tact, and charity, and kindness has he ever 
guided and counseled, a master of persuasive speech, " from 
whose tongue words flow sweeter than honey ! " In our quest 
after the golden treasures of knowledge, what guide could 



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have been more impartial, more considerate, or more skillful ? 
Difficulties have vanished, trials have been overcome, until, 
with success assured, we may well have cried out with the 
Greeks of old, Thalatta^ tJialatta, 



PRESIDENT ROGERS'S RESPONSE. 

This splendid occasion, unique in the history of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, has few precedents in the history of the 
universities of the United States. That such is the case is 
due in part to the small number of our institutions that are 
venerable with age. But it is due in larger part to the small 
number of men whose talents have been sufficiently command- 
ing to make possible such an event as the one we commemo- 
rate. It has been the good fortune of but few to serve for a 
quarter of a century as the executive head of an American 
University. The man whom we honor to-day belongs to this 
galaxy of distinguished men, small in number but great in re- 
nown. And now we enroll President Angell's name along with 
those other names, — Nott of Union, Hopkins of Williams, 
Woolsey of Yale, Eliot of Harvard. 

When a man has lived as long and as admirably as has the 
President of this University, it is well to come together and 
crown him with laurel, and strew the path before him with 
roses, and speak kind and appreciative words of him. We all 
know the great things he has wrought for the University of 
Michigan. Let us tell him so. We all honor him for what 
he is, and for what he has done. Let us tell him so. We 
all recognize him as a prince among college presidents. Let 
us tell him so. Flowers are not all to be reserved until a man 
is dead. The fragrance of the flowers is sweeter, and their 
beauty more comely, when presented to the living, who can 
sense their odor and their loveliness, than when laid on the 
casket of the dead, no matter how lovingly you lay them there, 
nor how many you place there. 

And yet those who know President Angell can understand 
quite readily that, while the recollection of this day will abide 



48 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

with him as one of the most pleasant of all his memories, still 
the occasion may be not altogether acceptable to him because 
of these eulogies to which he is compelled to listen, in which 
case the setting of this day's sun will bring to him a sense of 
relief. Now if this is the way in which he is disposed to look 
at it, we can only say to him, as James C. Carter, of New York, 
said on a similar occasion a few years ago to Dean Langdell of 
the Harvard Law School, that the fault is all his own and not 
ours. He easily might have had it otherwise. All he had to 
do was to have discharged his duties in an ordinary and per- 
functory manner, and then the tribute now being paid him 
would have been withheld. But he chose rather to devote his 
splendid powers and attainments to the building up of this 
great University which he has so largely made illustrious ; and 
he ought to have known, if he did not, that there would surely 
come a day when the sons and daughters of this University, 
together with the sons and daughters of other universities 
also indebted to him, would insist on paying their debt of ad- 
miration and applause, and of saying to him that, during these 
twenty-five years that he has been the guiding spirit of this 
University, " the skies of Michigan have been glowing more 
and more resplendently in the great firmament of learning." 

But we want him to understand, however, here and now, 
that we praise him, not for the success he has won, not for the 
name he has made, not because he has held the presidency of 
this University for twenty-five years, but because of the quali- 
ties for which he is distinguished, and by which all that he 
has attained has been made possible of achievement. Magnos 
homines virtute metimur, non fortuna^ said Cornelius Nepos 
two thousand years ago, and we repeat the words to-day : 
" We prize great men for their estimable qualities, not for 
their success." 

President Angell is deserving of our eulogy, not alone be- 
cause of the distinguished services which he has rendered to 
the universities and to the cause of education, but also because 
of the eminent service he has given to the government of the 
United States in high public office with which he has been 



THE RESPONSES AT THE DINNER. 49 

signally honored. Now and then in the history of our coun- 
try a distinguished educator and scholar has been called from 
the retirement of his study to the diplomatic service. Harvard 
can boast that when Webster died it was Edward Everett, 
a Harvard president, who succeeded him in the office of Sec- 
retary of State. And not so many years ago a Harvard 
professor, James Russell Lowell, was sent as Minister to the 
Court of St. James. In the same way, Andrew D. White, a 
president of Cornell University, was sent as Minister to the 
Court of Berlin, and later, in the same capacity, to St. Peters- 
burg, and is to-day associated with the honored head of Johns 
Hopkins University in the Venezuelan Commission, on whose 
findings may possibly depend the peace of two great nations. 
The University of Michigan may boast that, like Harvard, 
Cornell, and Johns Hopkins, she too has been honored. As 
Minister to China, and as one of the commissioners who ne- 
gotiated the treaty regulating Chinese immigration, and the 
treaty concerning commercial intercourse and judicial pro- 
cedure in China, President Angell reflected credit on himself, 
on the University, and on the country. Again, in 1887-88, 
when associated with such men as Mr. Bayard, Joseph Cham- 
berlain, Sackville West, and Mr. Tupper in the Fisheries 
Commission, he bore himself in a manner that was equally 
creditable to himself and the nation. 

Time does not permit me to enlarge on the valuable ser- 
vices which Dr. Angell has rendered to the cause of education 
in the United States. Speaking here to-day, not simply as 
an alumnus of this great University, so much beloved by me, 
but as the representative of another University, and of one 
not subject to State control, I wish to bear testimony to the 
fact that there is not a university in the West that has not 
felt his influence, and is not ready gladly to acknowledge the 
value of his services. We admire and applaud him. We 
congratulate the University on his distinguished leadership, 
and hope that he may continue to lead for years to come. 
Health, happiness, and length of days to James B. Angell of 
Michigan ! 

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50 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

" Honor and reverence, and the good repute 
That follows faithful service as its fruit, 
Be unto him whom living we salute." 



PRESIDENT SPERRY'S RESPONSE. 

I observe that the speakers at last have passed from a state 
of probation to a state of reprobation. I have decided there- 
fore to postpone my remarks until the centennial occasion. It 
seems to me wise to do so, because we shall need the remaining 
seventy-five years in which to think of something else to say. 
I suppose that there are times in the lives of us all when 
we feel that, if the opportunity had been given us, we too 
might have managed to be great. I have sometimes had the 
thought creeping into my mind. It calls to mind the story of 
the Hibernian, who, upon landing from an ocean steamer in 
New York, saw a diver coming up out of the water, and said : 
" If I had thought of it soon enough, I would have come that 
way myself." 

There has been chosen to the leadership of this great Uni- 
versity a princely man, largely endowed for the magnificent 
work which God placed in his hands ; and we join, my brother, 
in the very large satisfaction which has been so freely and 
fully expressed by the representatives of education of the State 
here. Old lady Olivet, to be sure, belongs to another parish, 
and I have not been able to enter into every thought and feel- 
ing of the occasion ; still, we feel a large satisfaction. I have 
heard of a man who once went to the home of his youth, and 
asked of a resident, " What has become of Smith ? " " Smith ? 
Smith is dead." "Dead? What was the complaint ? " "There 
was no complaint. Everybody is perfectly satisfied." And 
that is the feeling which we hold in regard to our brother An- 
gell of his life here. I have this to say on behalf of the col- 
leges of Michigan, — that President Angell has made it easier 
for every college president to do right, and harder for us to do 
wrong. We are indebted to him as a leader in sound learn- 
ing. We thank God every time his great influence is exerted. 



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Teach the youth that the proper function of our young men is, 
not to play baseball as well as it can be played, but as well 
as it can be done by a scholar and gentleman. We are very 
grateful that the paternal hand was recently laid upon some of 
our young brethren to teach them that great truth. 

I have sometimes thought that if we of the smaller colleges 
had two years of undergraduate work given over to us, you 
might thereby be strengthened; but if we had two years, 
we would steal the other two, and I have concluded that it is 
wise to work each in his own sphere. The Kev. Alexander 
King came over to this country and was asked to speak about 
church polity. Very much to the astonishment of the people, 
he took ground in favor of independency. He said that he 
had in his parish a man and wife who, though very good peo- 
ple, would frequently get mad at each other and not speak for 
two or three days. During one of these periods of silence, 
Patrick sat. on one side of the fireplace smoking his pipe; 
Bridget sat on the other side of the fireplace smoking hei* 
pipe. Between them the cat and the dog were quietly sleep- 
ing. Bridget, after contemplating the dog and cat for some 
moments, remarked : " Patrick, don't you think we ought to 
learn a lesson from these brute beasts, living so loving to- 
gether?" " Yes," said Patrick, "but just tie them together 
and see what they '11 do." 

As long as we go our own way, we live in great peace ; but 
the catholicity of spirit and the wisdom which stand at the head 
of this great University are an inspiration to every one who 
works in humbler spheres of life. The advice which we give 
to our honored brother this afternoon is to run onward in that 
same Christian course in which God has guided him for the 
last quarter of a century. 



52 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 



PRESIDENT HARPER'S RESPONSE. 

This has been a day of reminiscences. The reminiscences 
have been given very largely, however, by those who have been 
on the inside of the University. Will you allow me, an out- 
sider, for the moment to continue along the same line ? I do 
this because I am persuaded that my case is a typical case, 
and that there are thousands who have come into connection 
with President Angell indirectly for whom a word should be 
spoken here to-day. 

I remember, just about the time when President Angell 
came to Ann Arbor, that my father, a trustee of an Ohio col- 
lege, put into my hands the catalogue of the University of 
Michigan, and told me that this institution was one of the great- 
est institutions in all the West. I remember how I studied that 
catalogue. That was twenty-five years ago. I remember how, 
five years later, when I began my work as a teacher. Provi- 
dence placed me in close connection with a graduate of the 
first class of the University of Michigan, — Fletcher O. Marsh. 
His influence upon me was very great, not only then, but for 
twenty years. I remember how, five years later, I found my- 
self as a colleague of another man who had served long ser- 
vice, and whose one mistake in life was that he left the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. I remember having my first interview 
with President Angell when we met in New York. I remem- 
ber, only ^\& years ago, when the Commercial Club of Chicago 
invited the representatives of the universities about Chicago, 
that President Angell spoke words of warm welcome to those 
who were coming from the East to the West. I remember also 
that it was in the city of Ann Arbor, while doing service, that 
I formally accepted the Presidency of the University of Chi- 
cago. These are reminiscences of one entirely on the outside, 
but it shows that many have been brought into close relation 
with the University of Michigan who have never been mem- 
bers of the University. 

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greetings of the University of Chicago, — the greetings of those 
who are there to-day as students in the University doing grad- 
uate work, who have come from this University. The Univer- 
sity of Michigan has sent more to ours than any, except Har- 
vard, for graduate work. I may also bring the greetings of 
your alumni in Chicago, who are helping to make the city of 
Chicago what it is to-day, — men whom you should visit, men 
who should help the University of Michigan. 

I should like to tell you some of the impressions which we 
have of your president. It has been my privilege to be con- 
nected with several faculties, and I think that the impression 
prevails most generally that there is no president of an insti- 
tution in the United States who has had such close relation- 
ship with the members of his faculty as the President of the 
University of Michigan. The presidency of a university is a 
delicate position. It is difficult oftentimes to maintain close 
and friendly relations with all members of the faculty. I 
would hardly dare say it, and yet I am almost inclined to 
believe that to do so is the exception and not the rule. It is 
sometimes said that a university president — a college presi- 
dent — is not sincere ; that, to put it plainly, it is very diffi- 
cult for him always to speak the truth. It is said among 
students and among faculties that of all men the president 
of a university has the greatest difficulty always to maintain 
a reputation for veracity. There are reasons for this. It is 
very easy for the professor who consults the president to read 
into the words of the president the thoughts of his own heart ; 
and when matters are not as he would have them, the presi- 
dent has lied. The one characteristic spoken of most fre- 
quently in outside circles is the absolute sincerity of President 
Angell ; and there has been perhaps no other characteristic 
which has been manifested so clearly and so evidently, unless 
it is that other of which mention has been made so many times 
to-day, — his ability to accommodate himself to the situation. 

There are many other words which I could wish the oppor- 
tunity to utter, but in closing may I appeal to you who rep- 
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54 PKESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

what needs to be done? Adopt as the motto of life the words 
which were uttered a few minutes ago by the representative 
of the alumni, — the work of serving this institution, which is 
the glory of the State, which has done more for the State than 
the State has done for it. Who can measure the magnitude 
of the work ? Who can estimate what it will mean fifty years 
or one hundred years from now ? And for this, as we have 
said in our hearts so many times to-day, the State of Michi- 
gan, the United States, the cause of education in general, is 
indebted most largely to the man in whose honor we have 
gathered. May he have long life, and may he have thousands 
of men who will stand by to hold up his hand ; may he come 
to the city of Chicago, and secure from that city some of the 
many millions of dollars that ought to be devoted to the cause 
of education ! Let him come, and we shall do all for him that 
can be done — for an outsider. 



MR. DICKINSON'S RESPONSE. 

I rise to make a very simple and brief announcement, 
which we trust may be a small but pleasurable surprise to 
President Angell and the many who are gathered here on this 
occasion. But a comparatively short time ago, some good 
citizens of Michigan who are not alumni, like my friend who 
sits next me here [Mr. Dexter M. Ferry] , some alumni who 
are not citizens of Michigan, and some alumni who are, took 
counsel together to devise some expression of their admiration 
and regard and their affection for the great educator, the great 
American, the scholar, statesman, who presides over the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. In arriving at what should be done 
within the time at our command, we consulted with the Dean 
of the Literary Department. He said that no testimonial, he 
believed, would be acceptable to President Angell that was 
not laid at the feet of his mistress, the University of Michi- 
gan. And he said he thought that that would please the 
President best which would establish some sort of a small 
fund for the benefit of the University, and the Dean suggested 



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that it be a fellowship possibly, to be called " The President 
Angell Fellowship." He advised us that the smallest sum re- 
quired for this purpose would be ten thousand dollars. There 
has been no canvassing done, no soliciting done, no publicity 
about the matter ; but I am pleased to say that, although times 
are hard, although we have not in copper-producing Michigan 
the restoration of the old copper cent with free coinage of 
copper, yet we passed, — without solicitation bear in mind, and 
without canvassing, — we passed the ten-thousand-dollar mark 
some time since ; and we are asking now to retain our sub- 
scription list, with the ten thousand dollars and upwards al- 
ready subscribed, until we can double it, nay, while we try to 
treble it and quadruple it, for the purpose of creating an en- 
dowment worthy of this rare man of forceful character, learned 
mind, and sweet spirit whom we honor to-day. 

PROFESSOR WRIGHT'S RESPONSE. 

It is a satisfaction to know that in one thing Michigan 
patterns after Oberlin. In the inspiring music which we had 
at the opening exercises, I witnessed the effects of coeduca- 
tion, and Oberlin introduced coeducation almost a generation 
before it was introduced here. The success of coeducation in 
the University of Michigan has been largely due to President 
Angell's personal efforts. I well remember when President 
Angell came to his new field of labor. You knew what you 
were getting, — you were not visited by an angel unawares. 
We bring to you the congratulations of Oberlin for the suc- 
cessful completion of this quarter century of President AngelFs 
work. 

MR. WRIGHT'S RESPONSE. 

This is a day of fond recollections for the Class of '71. 
Twenty-five years ago to-day we passed from the halls of this 
University ; twenty-five years ago President Angell was in- 
augurated. To us he was a stranger, but after listening to 
the magic of his inaugural address we felt that the future of the 



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56 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

University was secure. During the twenty-five years that 
have elapsed, it has not been necessary for the Class of '71 to 
return to the University in order to know that it was great 
and prosperous ; for wherever we have been, we have found 
graduates of this institution filling places of honor and trust 
in every corner of this broad land, in the seats of learning, on 
the bench, at the bar, and in every field of human effort. On 
coming back to the University we are amazed. When we 
look around us and see the grand development of the last 
twenty-five years, it fills us with new zeal for higher education. 
To us President Angell is no longer a stranger ; he receives 
from us our heartfelt thanks for the great work that he has 
been so largely instrumental in carrying forward. 



CONGEATULATOEY LETTEES AND TELE- 

GEAMS. 



From a large body of letters and dispatches received by- 
President Angell, by the Chairman of the General Committee, 
and by the Chairman of the Committee on Invitations, many 
of which were of a private and personal character, the follow- 
ing portions have been selected for printing by the Committee 
on Publication, to whose direction the whole matter was en- 
trusted. 

FROM PRESIDENT LOUDON. 

Universitt of Tobonto, June 16, 1896. 
I regret very sincerely that unavoidable engagements here render 
it impossible for me to be present at the anniversary celebration in 
honor of President Angell. Permit me to add my heartiest con- 
gratulations on the auspicious occasion both to the University of 
Michigan and to President Angell, for whose learning, eloquence, 
and administrative skill I entertain the very greatest admiration, and 
whose personal friendship I consider it a distinguished honor to enjoy. 

J. Loudon. 

CABLEGRAM FROM CHANCELLOR SMITH, OF McGILL UNIVERSITY. 

London, June 23, 1896. 
I regret exceedingly that I am unable to attend the celebration of 
President James BurriU Angell to-morrow. McGiU University sends 
cordial greetings. 



Donald Smith. 



FROM PRESIDENT HYDE. 



BowDOiN College, Brunswick, Me., 
June 6, 1896. 

President Hyde congratulates the Kegents and Senate of the Uni- 
versity upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of Dr. 



58 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Angell, — a presidency which ranks with that of President Eliot as 
among the most important contributions thus far made to the cause 
of higher education in America, — and regrets that the coincidence 
of the celebration and the Bowdoin Commencement prevents him 
from being present. 

FROM PRESIDENT BUCKHAM. 

UNrVEBSITY OF VERMONT, BuRLINGTON, 

June 13, 1896. 
It would be a great neglect of duty, and a great wrong to our own 
feelings, if this University were to have no part in the proceedings in 
honor of one to whom we owe so much, and whom we all so admire 
and love. The five years of your term of office were memorable 
years in the history of this University. The war had left it, in the 
expressive phrase of Scripture, " scattered and peeled." Those of 
us who stood by it were only a remnant. You brought to us new 
life, hope, enthusiasm, and patient energy, and from the day of your 
inauguration we all felt that the old College had entered on a new 
career. Your leaving us was a matter of deep regret, but we knew 
that the regret was mutual. But though a quarter of a century has 
elapsed since you left us, you and your work here have not been for- 
gotten. On all public occasions we always couple your name with 
those of our "founders and benefactors." We have followed you 
in your larger career, academic and diplomatic, with interest and 
pride. We join most heartily in the felicitations of this anniversary, 
and we wish to you and to Mrs. Angell many years, not of dignified 
and happy repose, though you have earned them, but many years 
more of happy and beneficent work. 

M. H. BuCKHAM. 

FROM PRESIDENT CARTER. 

Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 
June 15, 1896. 

Twenty-five years is a very long time to keep the helm of a great 
university. I should like to come out and help honor you for such a 
prolonged and noble work as you have done. I cannot come, but I 
bid you godspeed, and believe in you with all my heart. 

Franklin Carter. 



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FROM PRESIDENT CAPEN. 

Ttjfts College, Mass., May 29, 1896. 
I regret that duties incidental to the Commencement of Tufts 
College win prevent me from attending the celebration of the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of the presidency of James B. Angell. Please ten- 
der to President Angell my earnest and heartfelt congratulations for 
his long and brilliant service to the higher education. 

E. H. Capen. 

FROM PRESIDENT SEELTE. 

Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 
May 19, 1896. 

I regret that, in consequence of other engagements, I cannot accept 
the invitation of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michi- 
gan to attend the celebration of the work its honored President has 
accomplished during the last twenty-five years. I do, however, 
heartily congratulate them upon the conspicuous ability with which 
he has advanced, not only the interests of the University over which 
he worthily presides, but also the interests of the higher education 
elsewhere, so that many other institutions of learning have become 
his debtors. 

L. Clark Seelye. 

FROM president HALL. 

Clark Untvebsity, Worcester, Mass., 
June 1, 1896. 

Mr. G. Stanley Hall desires to express great regret that other en- 
gagements will make it impossible for him to be present at the cele- 
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of James 
Burrill Angell on June twenty -fourth. He desires, however, to con- 
vey most hearty congratulations upon the leadership among State 
Universities which Michigan has assumed throughout this remarkable 
presidency. 

FROM PRESIDENT WALKER. 

Institute or Technology, Boston, Mass., 
May 28, 1896. 

President Walker very deeply regrets that absence from the 
country on the twenty-fourth of June will prevent his attending the 



60 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

most interesting exercises commemorative of the twenty-fifth anni- 
versary of the inauguration of President Angell. 

The occasion is one of deep interest to American scholarship. No 
friend of high learning, no friend of popular education, can fail to 
rejoice that President Angell has been permitted to round out this 
quarter century of splendid service, not to the University of Michi- 
gan, but to the country. 

FROM PRESIDENT MENDENHALL. 

Worcester PoLYTECHinc Institute, 
Worcester, Mass., June 10, 1896. 

I regret very much that it will be impossible for me to be present 
at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency 
of Doctor AngeU. 

Unfortunately it comes at a season when nearly every man en- 
gaged in educational work is imperatively required to be • at home, 
and I am sure this fact will prevent many from personally joining in 
extending their congratulations to your distinguished leader on the 
completion of a quarter of a century of splendid service to the insti- 
tution which he and his colleagues have made the foremost of its 
kind in the entire country. 

The problem of the State University has been continually nearer 
complete and final solution in Michigan than elsewhere ; and not 
only the people of that State, but the intelligent public everywhere, 
and especially all concerned in the educational interests of the whole 
people, owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Angell for his work of the 
last twenty-five years. 

T. C. Mendenhall. 

FROM PRESIDENT ANDREWS. 

Bbown University, Providence, R. I., 

May 21, 1896. 

I write to express to you the pain I feel that I cannot be with you 
at Ann Arbor when you celebrate the rounding up of your quarter 
century of work at the University of Michigan. 

I have the greatest admiration for your work in Michigan, which 
has done so much to render your University what it is, probably on 
the whole the most influential seat of learning on this continent. I 
desired to attend the celebration to testify to the immensity of the 
good you have done for American education and high citizenship. 



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I beg to assure you of my heartiest good will, and of my desire that 
you may be spared yet a good many years to continue your educa- 
tional service to America and to the world. 

E. Benjamin Andrews. 



FROM PRESIDENT DWIGHT. 

Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 
June 16, 1896. 

Unfortunately for me, the day of your anniversary is the day of 
our Commencement, and for this reason I cannot be present on the 
twenty-fourth to congratulate you in person on the happy completion 
of your twenty-five years in the presidency of the University of 
Michigan. I beg you, however, to accept my congratulations as I 
send them to you in this brief letter. 

You have certainly every reason to take great satisfaction in your 
review of these years, and of the work for your own institution and 
for the cause of education which you have done. Your term of 
office has been a long one, but you may look forward to the coming 
years with the most pleasant anticipations. I trust that the pleasures 
of memory and of hope may be equal as you pass through your 
anniversary season, and that you may realize, in the many expressions 
of gratitude and honor which come to you from your former and 
present pupils, the rich reward of your life as a teacher and admin- 
istrator. 

Timothy Dwight. 

from president low. 

Columbia Untveesity 
IN THE City of New York, 
May 23, 1896. 

I am exceedingly sorry that the date set for celebrating the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of your presidency makes it impossible for 
me to be present. It is a personal disappointment to me that I can- 
not shake you by the hand on that day, and thank you for your 
services to the country, while congratulating you on the splendid 
record of your presidency. I am sure you will believe, however, that 
no one who may be present will rejoice more sincerely than I in the 
happy features of this most interesting occasion. 

Seth Low. 



62 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENISriAL. 

FROM PRESIDENT MacCRACKEN. 

Universitt of the City of New York, 
June 26, 1896. 

I send belated but none the less sincere and hearty congratulations 
upon your completion of a quarter of a century in the presidency of 
the University of Michigan. The twentieth century will, I believe, 
look back at the thirty years following our Civil War as the period 
of university organization in America. The narrow college handed 
down from colonial times has given way in this period to universities 
which rival the foundations of the Old World. The University of 
Michigan has been one of the vanguard, and to you it has fallen to 
be her successful leader. May you have another quarter of a cen- 
tury to see the thorough systematizing of university work throughout 
America ! 

Henry Mitchell MacCracken. 

FROM president TAYLOR. 

Vassab College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
June 12, 1896. 

I cannot be present at the celebration of your twenty-fifth anni- 
versary, but I shall be with you " in spirit." Be sure that your own 
graduates are not the only ones who can speak truthfully of the inspi- 
ration of your life and work to them. Some of us who have only 
known you in later days are the happier and better for that know- 
ledge, and find in your example, in your work, and in your cheer, 
great encouragement and inspiration. 

May every blessing rest upon you, not only in these glad days of 
universally expressed appreciation, but in all the days of work and 
care which may follow, and may you be long preserved to us, who 
value you more for what you are than for the great work you have 
been able to do ! 

James M. Taylor. 

telegram from president patton. 

Princeton, N. J., June 24, 1896. 
I regret exceedingly that I am unable to be present to-day at the 
celebration in honor of President Angell. I rejoice with the Regents 
and Senate on the great work which their University has done in the 



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cause of the higher education during Dr. Angell's presidency. I 
congratulate President Angell on the results of his brilliant adminis- 
tration, and hope and pray that many years of public service are still 
before him. I join with his many friends throughout the land in 
expressing my admiration of his Christian character, and my cordial 
appreciation of his eminent public service as teacher, diplomatist, and 
administrative head of a great university. 

Francis L. Patton. 

fkom president scott. 

Rutgers College, June 20, 1896. 

I regret extremely that family cares following close on college 
duties will not permit me to be one in the multitude of those who will 
gather at Ann Arbor next week to express in person their sense of 
the value of what you have done all your life for " the things which 
are more excellent," and particularly during the past twenty-five 
years. Those who desire what is best in education and for the land 
will never fail to recount the gain coming to them from the paying 
out of your life in their service. 

You said once of Rutgers College that it had an honorable record. 
You know that, founded in 1766, it represented one of the elements 
which began the making of our country, one whose influence has 
been quiet, but active and continuous, — the Dutch. The Board of 
Trustees at the meeting on Tuesday last, as a token of the high honor 
in which they held you, voted unanimously to confer upon you the 
degree of Doctor of Laws, — the best gift in their power. I enclose 
a copy of the act as it appears on their minutes. 

Pray receive, as your twenty-fifth year of service in Michigan is 

completed, my warmest congratulations, and my best wishes that 

your years may be many, and all blessed with the richest blessing of 

God. 

Austin Scott. 

\_Enclosure.'] 

Unanimously voted. That the degree of Doctor of Laws be con- 
ferred upon James Burrill Angell, President of the University of 
Michigan, in recognition of the great work he has done during the 
last twenty-five years in conducting the affairs of one of the largest 
and most influential institutions of learning in the land, and of his 
eminent services in the discharge of duties in the high offices en- 
trusted to him by his country. 



64 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUAETER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM PROVOST HARRISON. 

University of PENNSTiiVANiA, Philadelphia, 
May 18, 1896. 

Provost Harrison regrets that the exigencies of the closing term 
of the University render it impossible for him to accept the polite 
invitation of the Regents and Senate of the University of IVIichigan 
to attend the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presi- 
dency of Dr. James Burrill Angell. He begs to express to the Re- 
gents, the Senate, and the President his sincerest congratulations on 
this happy event ; and to enclose the expression of official greeting 
from the University of Pennsylvania. 

l^Bnclosure.^ 
The Trustees and Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania 
tender to the Regents, the Senate, and the Faculties of the Univer^ 
sity of Michigan their most cordial congratulations on the occasion of 
the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of 
Dr. James Burrill Angell, to whose learning, wisdom, and energy the 
University of Michigan so largely owes its present commanding 
position among the institutions of learning in our land. May Presi- 
dent Angell's life and health be long preserved, that for many happy 
years to come he may guide and guard the interests of the University 
which he has so long served, and promote the cause of that higher 
education to which he has consecrated his most fruitful life. 

FROM LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 

Easton, Pa., June 22, 1896. 

The President and Faculty of Lafayette College send their hearti- 
est greetings to President Angell upon the completion of twenty-five 
years of such splendid service to the cause of higher education, and 
regret that they are unable to be represented personally upon the 
occasion of the celebration of this happy period. 

FROM PRESIDENT DROWN. 

The Lehigh Univebsity, South Bethlehem, Pa., 
May 26, 1896. 

President Angell's great work in education at the University of 
Michigan has made all American scholars his debtors, and I rejoice 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 65 

in the opportunity of adding my voice to the mighty chorus of con- 
gratulation which will greet him and the University on this happy 
day. 

T. M. Drowk. 

FROM PRESIDENT GILMAJS^. 

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimokb, 
June 20, 1896. 

It is a great disappointment to me that many circumstances be- 
yond my control deprive me of the pleasure of being present at this 
celebration. 

I should like to congratulate you personally that, notwithstanding 
your arduous service, you have kept, with your health and strength, 
your good spirits. I have just read of William Samuel Johnson, 
once President of Columbia College, that he resigned at the age of 
seventy-four, retired to his native village, and lived to enter upon his 
ninety-third year, " retaining to the last his vigor and activity of 
mind, the ardor of his literary curiosity, and a most lively interest 
in whatever concerned the welfare of this country and of the Chris- 
tian world." T think you will follow this example, — only I hope 
you will take the round hundred years, provided your health con- 
tinues. 

Then I should like to congratulate you officially on the success of 
your career. The skill with which you have maintained high stand- 
ards of education, while you have kept in close touch with the people ; 
the recognition that you have secured for the State of Michigan ; 
and the important services which you have rendered to the country 
at large as a diplomatist, give great distinction to your career, and 
secure for you a place in the highest rank of men who have con- 
tributed to the advancement of American universities. 

D. C. GlLMAJS^. 

FROM PRESIDENT WHITMAN. 

The Columbian University, Washington, D. C, 
June 2, 1896. 

1 I beg to acknowledge with thanks, for the Columbian University, 
the very courteous invitation of the University of Michigan to be 
represented at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
presidency of Dr. Angell. While not able to be personally repre- 
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QQ PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

sented, we beg you to be assured of the deep interest we feel in this 
noteworthy event, and to accept our congratulations for the Univer- 
sity, and for the distinguished scholar and leader who has had so 

large a part in its great record of usefulness. 

B. L. Whitmajs^. 

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. 

Chapel Hill, May 18, 1896. 

The President and Faculty of the University of North Carolina 
extend to the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan 
their congratulations on the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver- 
sary of the presidency of James Burrill Angell. They regret their 
inability to attend on this interesting occasion. 

They greatly rejoice in the extension and expansion of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan. 

FROM PRESIDENT CANFIELD. 

Ohio State Universitt, Columbus, 
May 20, 1896. 

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to join with others 

in extending to the University and to the State, and to the cause of 

public and free education, my congratulations upon the continuance, 

with full power, of the work of Dr. Angell. His labors, like his 

presence, are a perpetual benediction. I hope and pray that he may 

be spared for another quarter of a century to the cause of higher 

learning and sound training in this country. 

James H. Canfield. 

FROM president SCHAPMAN. 

Detroit College, Detroit, 

May 16, 1896. 

I regret exceedingly that the Commencement exercises of Detroit 
College, which are to be held on the same day, will render it impossible 
for me to attend this anniversary celebration. I can assure you that 
nothing would afford me greater pleasure than to add by my presence 
to any occasion which does honor to one who has contributed so 
largely, by his learning and experience, to the higher educational 
interests of our country. That he may be preserved to us ad 
multos annos in his present field of usefulness, and that the institu- 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 67 

tion over which he has presided for so many years and with such 
marked distinction may continue to accomplish in the future the 
splendid work which has made it so justly famous in the past, is the 
jubilee congratulation and best wish of 

Henry A. Schapman, S. J. 

FROM PRESIDENT KOLLEN. 

Holland, Mich., June 23, 1896. 
Hope College sends greeting to the University of Michigan, the 
pride of our great State ; and we most heartily congratulate Presi- 
dent Angell on his most successful administration. 

G. J. KoLLEN. 

FROM PRESIDENT JESSE. 

Univebsity of the State of Missouri, Columbia, 
May 23, 1896. 

it would give me great pleasure to be present at the celebration of 
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of Dr. Angell on the 
twenty-fourth of June, but I have an engagement at this time which 
it is impossible for me to break. 

President Angell has not only rendered inestimable service to the 

cause of education in the United States, but he has made himself 

personally dear to all who have had the privilege of knowing him. 

Under his administration the University has gone beyond the limits 

of the State, and has permeated the nation with its good work. It 

is fitting that the twenty-fifth anniversary of this noble service should 

be celebrated. I regret exceedingly that it is not in my power to 

be present and help to do honor to him and the University that he 

has led to greatness. 

R. H. Jesse. 

FROM CHANCELLOR CHAPLIN. 

Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 
June 9, 1896. 

A formal statement of regret that I cannot accept the invitation 
of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan to be 
present at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 
presidency of President Angell would not adequately express my 
feelings. Imperative engagements will require my presence here at 
that time. 



68 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

I wish to express my great appreciation of President Angell's 
service to education in general, and to that form of education repre- 
sented by state universities in particular. The success of Michigan 
University has been an example, a stimulus, and an inspiration to all 
other educational establishments. Indeed, what question in educa- 
tional circles, or what advance in educational matters, has there been 
where the powerful influence of Michigan University, represented 
by President Angell, has not had its part ? 

I congratulate you and the State of Michigan on the long and dis- 
tinguished service of President Angell, and I wish for him and you 

a long continuance of his labors. 

W. S. Chaplin. 

FROM PRESIDENT SNOW. 

Univebsitt of Kansas, Lawbence, 
June 22, 1896. 

I greatly regret my inability to attend the exercises in celebra- 
tion of your quarter-centennial of personal service to the University 
of Michigan. Accept my hearty congratulations upon the distin- 
guished success with which your educational labors have been 
crowned, and my sincere hope that you may be able to continue your 
benefactions to the University for many years to come. Allow me 
also to congratulate Mrs. Angell, whose constant cooperation has 
aided essentially in securing for you a long and prosperous adminis- 
tration. 

F. H. Snow. 

FROM PRESIDENT BAKER. 

University op Colorado, BouiiDBB, 

June 18, 1896. 

I regret that I cannot be present at the celebration of the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of Dr. Angell's presidency. There is no university 
I would sooner visit, no occasion I would sooner share in celebrating, 
no man to whom I would more gladly pay my respects. 

Michigan University has a great history, one that is an example 
and an encouragement to her younger sisters ; and President Angell 
has been a most important part of that record. 

Please convey to President Angell from the Regents and Facul- 
ties of the University of Colorado good will and congratulations and 

best wishes. 

James H. Baker. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 69 

FROM PRESIDENT KELLOGG. 

Univeksity of Caufornia, Berkeley, 
May 23, 1896. 

It would give me great pleasure to be present at the anniversary- 
celebration of June twenty-fourth. But distance and duties in my 
own State forbid. 

I congratulate President Angell on the completion of a quarter 
century of service in the great University over which he has so ably 
presided. And I congratulate the University of Michigan on the 
continued service of one who has done so much to forward its inter- 
ests and to enhance its renown. 

Martest Kellogg. 

from governor rich. 

Lansing, June 18, 1896. 

I regret that cu'cumstances of a peculiar nature compel me to 
cancel my engagement to be present at the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of Dr. Angell's presidency of the University of Michigan. I regret 
this very much, as I had anticipated much pleasure in attending. I 
should be very glad to pay my respects to Dr. Angell, not only on 
account of my personal friendship, but because of the ability which 
he has displayed as president. During that time of service he has 
conformed to the requests of each of the political parties, who asked 
for his services on account of his peculiar fitness for the position, 
which service he has performed with great honor. 

His worth has been clearly demonstrated in his learning, in his 
executive ability, and in his tact in meeting difficulties during his 
term of service, wherein he has seen the University grow from a 
small institution to stand among the foremost not only in the United 
States but in the world. 

I desire to express to Dr. Angell and the friends assembled my 
sincere congratulations upon his being able to celebrate his twenty- 
^fth anniversary under such favorable and auspicious circumstances. 

John T. Rich. 

from ex-regent burt. 

Marquette, Mich., June 22, 1896. 
It is with the keenest regret that I am compelled at this last mo- 
ment to recall my acceptance of the invitation to be present on the 



70 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

twenty-fourth instant. It is an event in which I could participate 
with unalloyed pleasure, save for the vacant chairs that must be set 
for the four eternally absent ones, Stockwell, Estabrook, Gilbert, and 
Walker, who, with Sweezey, WiUard, McGowan, and myself, con- 
stituted the Board of Regents which called Dr. Angell into the connec- 
tion with the University that has continued so long and so happily 
as to make the celebration of it an event in the history of the great 
institution second only in importance to the Semi-Centennial. 

I recall no act of my life with the results of which I feel so great 
satisfaction as the vote I gave Dr. Angell when called upon to choose 
a successor to the two great men, Tappan and Haven, his immediate 
predecessors. An intimate acquaintance with these two men im- 
pressed me, as I believe it did the other members of the Board of 
Regents, with such a sense of the responsibility that more than two 
years' consideration was given before choice was finally made. 

I recall with interest some of the important questions with which 
the Board of Regents had to deal during that era of liberalizing, 
1868-76, such as state aid, homoeopathy, opening the doors to women, 
which received their initiatory settlement during that period. Always 
optimistic, I then anticipated a rapid growth in number, position, 
and influence ; but as I compare the then and the now, I see another 
striking illustration of the futility of forecasting the future, as re- 
spects my own loved State at least, in its educational as well as its 
material development. 

Long life and happiness to President and Mrs. Angell, and a con- 
tinuance of the relationship so fittingly celebrated, until its com- 
memoration be written in letters of gold upon tablets of silver ! 

Hiram A. Burt. 

TELEGRAM FROM EX-REGENT GROSVENOR. 

JoNESviLLE, Mich., June 23, 1896. 
It is a great disappointment to me that I am unable to be with 
you on the twenty-fourth and evidence by my presence the respect 
and esteem I entertain for Dr. Angell as citizen and man, and 
also my very high appreciation of the great value of his services to 
our State and University for the last quarter of a century. 

E. O. Grosvenor. 



LETTEES AND TELEGRAMS. 71 

FROM EX-REGENT JOT. 

Detroit, May 22, 1896. 

Hardly anything could give me greater pleasure than to be able, 
with his hosts of friends, to congratulate President Angell on the 
twenty-fifth anniversary of his splendidly successful administration 
as president of the affairs of the University. 

But I have now for two or three years been compelled to decline 
being present at public meetings even in Detroit, both from a partial 
loss of my voice and from my inability to hear speakers on such 
occasions ; and I am constrained, reluctantly, to decline attending 
the meetings of this anniversary. But I do, nevertheless, congratu- 
late President Ajigell with all my heart on the magnificent progress 
of the University during the quarter of a century of his care of it, in 
which it has become one of the leading and great universities of the 
world. 

James F. Jot. 

from ex-regent willett. 

Pasadena, Cal., June 17, 1896. 
As the date of the twenty-fifth anniversary of your inauguration 
approaches, I am reminded of the situation at Ann Arbor during 
the two years preceding that time. Our beloved Professor Frieze, 
as Acting President, was laboring beyond his strength in the duties 
of his position, endeavoring to find the way to success between con- 
tending factions, and, above all, using his influence towards the 
selection of the right man for president. The undergraduates, 
especially the upper classes, were exceedingly interested in the 
situation. As an illustration, I quote from an article published in 
« The Chronicle " of March 12, 1870 : " The presidency has been 
vacant since last June ; it has been offered to several gentlemen, but 
declined, and the all-important question is stiU unanswered. Who is 
to be our next President ? . . . No weak and vacillating man, no 
man easily turned from a well-considered purpose by the criticisms 
of weak minds, no man who depends on the support or approval of 
others, no man without a just and high appreciation of the aims and 
needs of the University, can conduct it victoriously through difficul- 
ties and dangers, and give it a prominent place in the foremost 
rank." 



72" PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

The impression gained ground among the students that you were 
the man best prepared to fulfill the requirements of the situation. 
Hence, when Professor Frieze announced that you had declined the 
position, there was great disappointment, which was changed to joy 
only when the news came at last that you had reconsidered the mat- 
ter and would accept. The Class of 1871 was especially favored in 
that your inauguration was fixed for the date of its graduation, and 
that the inaugural was to be followed by the presentation of diplomas 
through your hands. Since that day, my thoughts have ever turned 
with interest towards the University and with gratification to your 
incumbency. With better opportunities for judging than have come 
to many, I desire to say now that the wonderful prosperity which 
my Alma Mater has enjoyed for the past twenty-five years is in the 
highest degree due to your distinguished services. 

Allow me to congratulate you, on behalf of myself and the alumni 
on this coast, upon the successful close of your quarter century of 
service, and to express the hope that you may be able for many years 
to guide the University on its forward course. 

Charles J. Willett. 

TELEGRAM FROM EX-GOVERNOR ALGER. 

Detroit, Mich., June 24, 1896. 
A long, happy, and continued life of usefulness to you ! My best 
congratulations upon this your silver anniversary with the Uni- 
versity. 

Russell A. Alger. 

FROM EX-SENATOR PALMER. 

Lakchmont Manor, N. Y., June IT, 1896. 

It seems now impracticable for me to be at the Commencement of 
the University, which I much regret, — the more so on account of 
the proposed compliment to President AngeU. 

I know of no man who is better entitled to the consideration of the 
people of our State than he. He has worked for many years, a part 
of the time under the most discouraging conditions, for the good of 
the University, which he has brought to a position where it is the 
chief glory of the State. In addition thereto, he has conferred honor 
upon the State by the manner in which he has discharged his duties 
in diplomacy at the instance of the President of the United States. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 73 

It seems fitting that our people should emphasize their appreciation 
of his services by some testimonial of an enduring character. 

Thomas W. Palmer. 

from ex-minister lothrop. 

Detroit, June 23, 1896. 

Though I must have known some time ago that this was your 
twenty-fifth year of service at the University, yet I was really star- 
tled when I saw in the papers this morning your admirable bacca- 
laureate. 

I have no words that will fitly express my regret that I am not 
able to come to Ann Arbor to pay my respects to Mrs. Angell and 
yourself personally, and to testify my appreciation of the great work 
you have done in and for Michigan. But I am really unable to go 
anywhere or do anything. Only with great difficulty can I shape 
these few trembling lines to thank you for what you have done, and 
to express my sincere hope that you may still live many years to pro- 
long your useful and brilliant work at the University. 

George V. N. Lothrop. 

FROM JUDGE SWAN. 

United States Couuts, Detroit, 
June 23, 1896. 

It is a great disappointment to me that I shall be denied the pleas- 
ure of personal participation in the assemblage which will observe 
the twenty-fifth anniversary of your connection with the University of 
Michigan, which you have honored and enriched by faithful and 
eminent service. I had looked forward to the occasion with confi- 
dence that I should enjoy its pleasures, and had made arrangement 
of my work with special reference to the occasion. The "unex- 
pected has happened," as always, and I am barred. The only privi- 
lege which circumstances permit me is this expression of my sincere 
gratitude that the conduct of our great University has been intrusted 
to one who has so amply demonstrated his eminent capacity as an 
educator by the rank which your labors have given to it. In common 
with the thousands of the children of my Alma Mater who hold 
you in grateful recollection, I congratulate our State and its noble 
University on your position and labors, and sincerely hope that you 
may long be spared to honor and guide the cause of education in 

this Commonwealth. 

Henry H. Swan. 



74 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENlSriAL. 

CABLEGRAM FKOM MINISTER UHL. 

Berlin, June 24, 1896. 
Hearty congratulations to University and to you. 

Edwin F. Uhl. 

from bishop davies. 

Detboit, June 16, 1896. 
As I shall be unable to be present at the anniversary celebration 
next week, I take this opportunity of telling you that I regret ex- 
ceedingly that I cannot in person offer you my tribute of affectionate 
homage and sincere congratulation upon the completion of a quarter 
of a century of service in your exalted position. May the Univer- 
sity of Michigan and the republic of letters be blessed with your 

presence for many years to come ! 

Thomas F. Davies. 

FROM bishop GILLESPIE. 

Grand Rapids, Mich., June 17, 1896. 
I acknowledge with thanks the courteous invitation to be present 
at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the presidency of 
Dr. Angell. My esteem for our distinguished friend would urge my 
attendance, but I am unable to accept the invitation. 

George D. Gillespie. 

from bishop ninde. 

Detroit, June 19, 1896. 
I have received your kind invitation to be present at the celebra- 
tion of President Angell's twenty-fifth anniversary as the honored 
head of the University of Michigan. I had the privilege of listening 
to his inaugural address in 1871, and unless unavoidably detained 
shall be present on next Wednesday to join with his many friends in 
extending hearty congratulations. 

W. X. NiNDE. 

FROM REV. MARCUS A. BROWNSON. 

First Presbyterian Church, Detroit,. 
June 23, 1896. 

I regret very much indeed my inability to be present on the joyous 
occasion of to-morrow to offer my word of congratulation in person. 



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With your hosts of admirers and friends all over the country, I re- 
joice in the magnificent attainments of your quarter-century presi- 
dency of our University, and I do most heartily desire many years 
of sustained health and continuous triumphs in the cause of liberal 
education to be granted to you. Every citizen of Michigan and 
every friend of advanced scholarship in the land must feel himself to 
be beneath the obligation of unbounded esteem for your administra- 
tion of the great trust committed to your care. 

Marcus A. Brownson. 

FROM REV. RUFUS W. CLARK. 

St. Paul's Church, Detroit, 
June 16, 1896. 

If there is one thing for which a citizen of Michigan who has watched 
its history for the past twenty-five years ought to be proud, it is the 
distinction that the President of the University has given to the State. 
What he stands for — and it has been largely his achievement — has 
been the one thing in which this State of Michigan has been preemi- 
nent. 

It must be noted here that what we are thankful for is not merely 
the quarter of a century past, but also the years to come. No man 
is qualified to register to-day what President AngeU has done for 
men coming upon the stage of action in this State. 

RuFus W. Clark. 

FROM REV. WALLACE RADCLIFFE. 

Washington, D. C, 
June 20, 1896. 

I regret very much that I cannot be present on Wednesday, June 
the twenty-fourth, to join in the world-wide congratulations to Presi- 
dent Angell, and to wish for him and the University many added 
years of still enlarged influence and success in demonstrating for 
the State and for humanity that " religion, morality, and knowledge 
are necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind." 

Wallace Radcliffe. 



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76 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM EX-PROFESSOR WHITE. 

Office of the Venettuelan Commission, 
Washington, D. C, March 14, 1896. 

The tribute you purpose to pay President Angell is most honor- 
able to him and to all concerned. He deserves it well. He came 
into his present position at perhaps the most troubled and trying 
epoch in the history of the University, and into a body of professors 
and alumni and a public at large fiUed with grateful memories and 
deep regrets for the great man who reaUy laid the foundations of the 
University, Dr. Henry Philip Tappan. Quietly, and without the 
slightest ostentation, Dr. AngeU took up the vast work, and soon 
showed himself fully able to cope with all the difficulties of the 
situation. 

I need not dwell upon the admirable qualities which fit him for 
his post, and which have given him the great success which he has 
obtained. They are known to you all. He has secured both the 
respect and the love of all thinking men to whom the University of 
Michigan is dear. Under his care, it has far more than realized the 
most sanguine hopes of its founders and early promoters ; and, while 
many have borne a noble part in the good work, all will acknowledge 
that the man who has chiefly inspired and led it during the last 
quarter of a century is Dr. Angell. Both in administration and in- 
struction he has proved himself ideally fitted for the position, and he 
indeed deserves well of Michigan and the whole country. 

Bearing as I do a deep affection for the institution in which I be- 
gan my work as an instructor, which has so largely extended the 
circle of my cherished friendships, and which has proved of so much 
value to me in my work since I left it, I feel a personal debt of grati- 
tude to him whom you purpose to honor, and join with you most 
heartily in this tribute so well deserved. 

Andrew D. White. 

from ex-professor tyler. 

Cornell Univeksity, Ithaca, N. Y., 
June 12, 1896. 

I do not remember any public event in my time which seems to 
me to have had in it more of the eternal fitness of things than will 
attach to the University Jubilee over the completion of the twenty- 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 77 

fifth year of Dr. Angell's presidency. I am sorry that I cannot be 
at Ann Arbor to share in all these rejoicings. Certainly, if I could 
be there, I should try to get together once more all who are now left 
in this world of the company of men and women — members of the 
faculty and their families — who, one evening in the autumn of 
1869, were assembled in the parlors of Dr. Frieze's house to greet 
for the first time the young President of the University of Vermont, 
then just arrived on a visit of inspection at the University of Michi- 
gan, — himself often spoken of at that time as the youngest and 
liveliest college president in existence, a description which I am in- 
clined to think is applicable to him yet. I shall never forget that 
evening, or that interview with him. It seems to me as only a thing 
of yesterday, that, while we were all waiting for our guest to come 
down stairs, the noise of our mingled voices suddenly stopped as we 
became aware of his entrance into the room. There is no doubt, 
that on our part it was a case of love at first sight ; for, though he 
found himself then unable to accept the call from Michigan, yet so 
strong and hearty was the impression he made upon all who met 
him, that no one was able to accept that refusal as final : nor could 
we, by reason of such refusal, find it in our hearts to turn toward 
any one else for our future President, — a fact, by the way, due in 
part, no doubt, to the exquisite devotion and efficiency of the brilliant 
scholar and beloved man who was acting as president in the interval. 
Of course I distinctly remember the satisfaction that ran through 
our community when we learned that our patience in waiting for 
him those two years had been rewarded by his consent to come to us 
at last in 1871. 

In one respect I feel somewhat entitled to have an opinion as to 
the men who have helped and hindered in the development of the 
University ; for, as child and youth and man, I have known it ever 
since it came into existence. I knew the University in its stormy 
and tentative and feeble first decade. I was one of the Httle class of 
freshmen who entered the University in the fall of 1852, after an 
examination from which all the expected terrors were removed by the 
professorial philanthropy of dear old Dr. Williams. A few weeks 
later, I was one of that crowd of students in the literary department, 
then numbering as many as fifty -five or sixty men, — a mighty 
host we seemed to ourselves to be, — who welcomed the entrance 
into the Chapel for the first time of President Tappan, at a glance 
recognizing him as a man born to command and to be obeyed. 



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78 PEESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

Under the creative touch of that king of men, I saw the petty col- 
lege grow into a university, — the first successful state university in 
our country, as it still is the greatest one and the model of all the 
others. 

Doubtless the decade of Dr. Tappan's presidency was, in a very 
striking sense, the creative period of the University. The six years 
of the presidency of Dr. Haven were years of needful pacification 
after controversies that might easily have wrecked all. Then the 
time had come for a new man to appear upon the scene, wholly 
detached from all the feuds of the past, and wholly incapable of being 
the occasion for feuds in the future, — for a man who should unite 
scholarship with common sense, experience with tact, and the power 
to work and to organize with the power to wait patiently, and to im- 
part to other men the spirit of harmony and zeal and faith in their 
work ; for a man who would control and guide the University with 
so steady, kind, and wise a hand, and for so long a period, as to give 
mature outward form to the immense latent forces in the University, 
and consistency as well as strength to the great subdivisions of its 
work ; finally, for a man who should know how to draw the mind 
and heart of the noble State of Michigan into permanent affection 
for the University, and into an abiding confidence in the wisdom and 
benignity of its management. 

In my opinion, this has been the essence of the great work which 
James B. Angell has wrought for the University by his quarter of a 
century in control of its affairs ; and as time goes on, and the true 
perspective of men's doings in our time becomes clearer, I think that 
the greatness and the unique value of his noiseless, modest, steady, 
tactful labors will be still more obvious. 

I may not now speak of my own private gratitude for his official 
kindness and helpfulness to me. I must, however, be allowed to say 
this : I have been fortunate in having had to do, as student and 
teacher, with a line of strong and good college presidents, — Tappan, 
Woolsey, Haven, Frieze, Angell, Andrew White, Adams, and Schur- 
man ; but under none of them would I more willingly live over again 
the years that I have passed under such leadership than under that 
president who is just finishing so gloriously his first quarter of a 
century in Michigan. 

Long may he stay in command of the same noble old ship ! Our 
congratulations to him upon his success are to be exceeded only by 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 79 

our thanks to him for the wisdom and goodness and efficiency of his 
unrivaled services. 

Moses Coit Tyler. 



FROM EX-PROFESSOR ARNDT. 

San Diego, Cal., June 9, 1896. 

V 

The happiest years, in one sense, of my life were spent at the 
University of Michigan, and while there I learned to do full justice 
to the brilliant executive ability, and worth as a citizen, of its dis- 
tinguished president. It is, therefore, a matter of sincere regret to 
acknowledge to myself the impossibility of crossing the continent and 
by my presence expressing my appreciation of the value of the work 
done by President Angell, and the hope that he may happily live and 
work for many years to come. 

H. R. Arndt. 

FROM EX-PROFESSOR GERRISH. 
I 

Portland, Me., May 25, 1896. 
I greatly regret that duties in connection with the graduation of 
the medical class in the Maine school will prevent my attending the 
celebration of President Angell's quarter century in his high office. 
It is eminently fitting that especial notice should be taken of the event, 
and it would give me great pleasure to be one of the multitude which 
will gather to express their admiration and regard for Dr. Angell. 

Frederick H. Gerrish. 

FROM superintendent DUFFIELD. 

U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
Washington, D. C, June 22, 1896. 

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be present at this 
celebration of one whom I respect and esteem so highly, and who has 
fulfilled the duties of his important position so well and worthily. 
Unfortunately I leave to-night for an extended tour of inspection of 
both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and I therefore sincerely regret 
my inability to accept your kind invitation. 

W. W. DuFFIELD. 



80 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM MR. CHARLES W. DABNEY. 

United States Depaktment of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, May 26, 1896. 

The University of Michigan is to be congratulated on the fact 
that Dr. Angell has served it for twenty-five years, for it is largely 
owing to his wise direction that the institution has attained the 
position of the great university of the American people. The won- 
derful growth and magnificent usefulness of the. University of Michi- 
gan is a matter of pride with every friend of education in America ; 
and every one will, I am sure, wish that Dr. Angell may be spared 
to this work many years longer, and be instrumental in making the 
great University still broader and better. 

Charles W. Dabisiey, Jr. 

FROM professor HART. 

Easton, Pa., June 15, 1896. 

The University of Michigan easily ranks first among the state 
universities. That this has come to pass I believe to be due in no 
small degree to the wise guidance and untiring exertions of Presi- 
dent Angell. 

On the twenty-fourth of October last we celebrated the fortieth 
anniversary of Dr. March's coming to Lafayette. These celebra- 
tions are good for us. They give free vent to the gratitude we all feel 
towards the men who are leading in the emancipation of humankind 
through education. 

Edward Hart. 

from professor strong. 

Ypselanti, Mich., June 23, 1896. 
As one who had the good fortune to welcome you to the State and 
to the headship of our growing University twenty-five years ago, I 
rejoice to-day with my fellow-citizens that the good auguries of that 
day have been more than realized, and that you are yet with us, in 
strength and vigor, to carry forward and consolidate the really won- 
derful work which you have been instrumental in accomplishing. 

E. A. Strong. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 81 

FROM PROFESSOR HOLDEN. 

The Lick Observatory, 

University of California, 

June 6, 1896. 

I beg to thank you most sincerely for your very welcome invita- 
tion to be present at the anniversary celebration in honor of Presi- 
dent Angell, and I deeply regret my inability to be present. I beg 
you to convey my warmest congratulations to President Angell on 
the noble work he has accomplished, and to remind him that the Lick 
Observatory has shown its appreciation of scholars from the Univer- 
sity of Michigan by choosing four of them as astronomers. 

Edward S. Holden. 

from the lick observatory. 

Mount Hamilton, June 18, 1896. 
We beg to congratulate you most heartily upon the completion 
of a quarter century of distinguished service in behalf of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, and to express the hope that the University 
may remain under your wise administration for many, many years 
to come. 

W. W. Campbell, '86. 
W. J. HussET, '89. 
A. L. CoLTON, '89.1 

from MR. EDWARD P. ALLEN. 

Ypsilanti, Mich., June 25, 1896. 

Unable to be present yesterday, I do not propose to let the occasion 
pass without conveying to you my heartfelt congratulations upon 
your quarter century of work, fraught with honor to the State, and 
lasting marks for good upon thousands of young men and women 
who, scattered everywhere, are in turn bringing credit to yourself 
and the University, and making the country greater and safer for 
the training there received. 

Verily " no man liveth to himself," and, where that living shapes 
for good the hosts who have passed under your training, you have 
the right to rejoice, and your friends also, and I do. 

Edward P. Allen. 

1 The absence of Professor Schaeberle's signature is due to the fact that he is 
now in Japan. 



82 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

FROM PROFESSOR BIGELOW. 

Chicago, June 15, 1896. 

T am sorry that circumstances will prevent me from participating in 
the exercises of June twenty-fourth, but I am with you all in delight- 
ing to honor our noble leader. I believe there is not an alumnus of 
the University of Michigan on this habitable globe who is not proud 
of the President of our University. How much he has done for the 
University of Michigan ! And in such a quiet, unobtrusive, modest 
way ! 

President Angell deserves all the honors and gratitude that the 
alumni can bestow and feel. May the day smile upon him and upon 
all who are there to show him their affection personally, and by rep- 
resentation of those whose misfortune it is not to be present ! 

Melville M. Bigelow. 

from mr. b. f. bower, general maij^ager of "the cincinnati 

TRIBUNE." 

CnfciNNATi, June 22, 1896. 
It was my fortune to be a student in the Law Department of the 
University during the early years of President Angell's administra- 
tion, and during a regrettable period of university affairs. Circum- 
stances afforded me an exceptional opportunity of observing the 
manner in which the high and difficult responsibilities of the presi- 
dency were discharged under the most trying conditions. The 
splendid ability, delicate tact, and diplomacy of the president im- 
pressed my student mind as profoundly as his broad culture, deep 
scholarship, and statesmanship have impressed my more mature 
mind. The twenty years that have passed since then have increased 
the respect and admiration which I, in common with all alumni, 
entertain for him. 

B. F. Bower. 

FROM professor BROWN. 

Untvbrsity of California, Berkeley, 
June 21, 1896. 

I greatly regret that I am unable to reach Ann Arbor in time for 
the celebration of your quarter-centennial. May I add my little word 
of congratulation to the many expressions of remembrance and good 
will that will reach you this week. 



LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. 83 

It is a great thing, it seems to me, for any man to reach such a 
plane of life that even his casual words are treasured up in other 
men's memory, and influence other men's lives. I have no doubt 
that there are many others who recall, as I do, words you have 
dropped at odd times which have encouraged and helped them. I 
am especially glad to have had my one year of teaching at the Uni- 
versity, for all that year I was learning from you. 

Elmer E. Brown. 

from mr. lawrence c. hull. 

Lawrence VTLLE, N. J., 
June 22, 1896. 

Words of praise must have grown dull to you at a time when the 
whole State of Michigan unites in thanking you for twenty-five years 
of noble service. But Mrs. Hull and I do wish to send to you and 
Mrs. Angell our most sincere regrets that we cannot join with the 
enthusiastic graduates who are happy in the sight of you this week. 

You know that we do not need to tell you how grateful we are to 
you. We thank you with all our hearts for the great service you 
have rendered to the State of Michigan and the cause of higher 
education throughout this country, but still more for the personal 
inspiration of your noble life, and for the kindly personal interest 
that you have taken in each of us. You would not be the ideal 
president that you are, were it not for that gentle, sympathetic na- 
ture that can forget the larger cares of the institution and remember 
the personal needs of each student. It is for this that your old 
students love you. May God spare you for many more years of 
fruitful service and beautiful life ! 

Lawrence C. Hull. 

from dr. hurd. 

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 
Baltimore, June 13, 1896. 

I write to express my sincere thanks for your kind invitation to be 
present at the Angell celebration. I wish it were possible for me to 
get away, but it seems out of the question. I know of no more 
grateful task than to undertake a journey to Ann Arbor to attest my 
admiration for one who has done so much in twenty-five years to 
build up our beloved University. The State of Michigan and the 



84 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 

alumni of the University owe him a debt of loyalty and gratitude for 
his abundant labors. I hope that the week will be one of exceed- 
ing interest, and that the celebration will be fully worthy the notable 
event. 

Henry M. Hurd. 

from professor alfred senter. 

Queen's College, Galway, 
June 13, 1896. 

Professor Senior regrets that he is unable to accept the invitation 
of the Regents and Senate of the University of Michigan to be 
present at the celebration of the twenty -fifth anniversary of the presi- 
dency of Dr. Angell. But as a former student at Ann Arbor, 
Professor Senior ventures to send his congratulations to President 
Angell and to the University on this happy occasion. 

FROM PROFESSOR WOODWARD. 

COLUMBLA UkIVEBSITT 

IN THE City of New York, 
June 16, 1896. 

It is with great regret that I find myself unable, by reason of press- 
ing engagements here, to attend the celebration of the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of the presidency of Dr. Angell. This regret is intensified 
by a deep personal interest growing out of the fact that my class, 
that of 1872, was the first to graduate from the Department of 
Literature, Science, and the Arts, under President Angell's adminis- 
tration. Every member of '72 must rejoice in, and feel to some 
extent identified with, this celebration. 

Please convey to Dr. Angell my hearty congratulations on the 
completion of his first quarter century as President of the University. 
May he yet live long to enjoy the fruits of his untiring devotion and 
labor in the cause of higher education ! 

R. S. Woodward. 



REGENTS. 

LEVI L. BARBOUR. 
WILLIAM J. COCKER. 
PETER N. COOK. 
HENRY S. DEAN. 
HERMANN KIEFER. 
FRANK W. FLETCHER. 
ROGER W. BUTTERFIELD. 
GEORGE A. FARR. 



James H. Wade, Secretary. 
Harrison Soule, Treasurer. 

THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 

James B. Angeix, LL. D. 
Albert B. Prescott, LL. D. 
Rev. Martin L. D'Ooge, LL. D. 
Charles E. Greene, A. M., C. E. 
Jonathan Taft, M. D., D. D. S. 
William H. Pettee, A. M. 
John A. Watling, D. D. S. 
Edward L. Walter, Ph. D. 
Isaac N. Demmon, LL. D. 
William H. Dorrance, D. D. S. 
Albert H. Pattengill, A. M. 
Mortimer E. Cooley, M. E. 
William J. Herdman, Ph. B., M. D. 
WoosTER W. Beman, a. M. 
Victor C. Vaughan, Ph. D., M. D. 
Thomas M. Cooley, LL. D. 
Charles S. Denison, M. S., C. E. 
Henry S. Carhart, LL. D. 
Levi T. Griffin, A. M. 
Raymond C. Davis, A. M. 
VoLNEY M. Spalding, Ph. D. 



86 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTEiUCENTENNIAL. 

Henry C. Adams, Ph. D. 

Burke A. Hinsdale, LL. D. 

Richard Hudson, A. M. 

Bradley M. Thompson, M. S., LL. B. 

Albert A. Stanley, A. M. 

Francis W. Kelsey, Ph. D. 

Jerome C. Knowlton, A. B., LL. B. 

Charles B. Nancrede, A. M., M. D. 

Flemming Carrow, M. D. 

Otis C. Johnson, A. M., Ph. C. 

Paul C. Freer, Ph. D., M. D. 

James N. Martin, Ph. M., M. D. 

Nelville S. Hoff, D. D. S. 

George Dock, M. D. 

John W. Champlin, LL. D. 

Andrew C. McLaughlin, A. M., LL. B. 

Joseph B. Davis, C. E. 

Asaph Hall, Jr., Ph. D. 

Israel C. Russell, LL. D. 

Warren P. Lombard, A. B., M. D. 

Floyd R. Mechem, A. M. 

Jacob E. Reighard, Ph. B. 

Thomas C. Trueblood, A. M. 

James A. Craig, Ph. D. 

Alexis C. Angell, A. B., LL. B. 

Otto Kirchner, A. M. 

Arthur R. Cushny, A. M., M. D. 

John C. Rolfe, Ph. D. 

J. Playfair McMurrich, Ph. D. 

Harry B. Hutchins, Ph. B. 

Thomas A. Bogle, LL. B. 

Wilbert B. Hinsdale, A. M., M. D. 

Oscar Le Seure, M. D. 

Roy S. Copeland, M. D. 

Alfred H. Lloyd, Ph. D. 

George A. Hench, Ph. D. 

Horace L. Wilgus, M. S. 

Myron H. Parmelee, M. D. 

Frederick G. Novy, Sc. D., M. D. 

George Hempl, Ph. D. 

Edward D. Campbell, B. S. 

Fred M. Taylor, Ph. D. 

James B. Fitzgerald, M. D. 

Paul R. de Pont, A. B., B. S. 



THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. 87 

Clarence G. Taylor, B. S., M. E. 

Joseph H. Drake, A. B. 

Fred. N. Scott, Ph. D. 

Alexander Ziwet, C. E. 

George W. Patterson, Jr., A. M., S. B. 

Frank C. Wagner, A. M., B. S, 

GOTTHELF C. HuBER, M. D. 

Alviso B. Stevens, Ph. C. 
John O. Reed, Ph. M. 
William A. Campbell, B. S., M. D. 
Dean C. Worcester, A. B. 
Frederick C. Newcombe, Ph. D. 
William F. Breakey, M, D. 



GUESTS AT THE DINNEK.i 



Ephraim D. Adams, A. B., '87. 

Mrs. Ephraim D. Adams. 

Henry C. Adams, A. B. (Iowa 

Coll.), '74. 
Mrs. Henry C. Adams, A. B., '88. 
George F. Allmendinger, C. E., '78. 
George W. AUyn, A. B., '72. 
William H. Anderson, LL. B., '96. 
Wilbam K. Anderson, A. B., '68. 
Mrs. William K. Anderson. 
Frank D. Andrus, A. B., '72. 
Alexis C. Angell, A. B., '78. 
Mrs. Alexis C. Angell, Lit., '77. 
James B. Angell, President of the 

University. 
Mrs. James B. Angell. 
William T. AngeU. 
Frederick W. Arbury, A. B., '83. 
Henry W. Ashley, A. B., '79. 
Earl D. Babst, Ph. B., '93. 
Henry B. Baker, A. M., '90. 
Floras A. Barbour, A. B., '78. 
Levi L. Barbour, A. B., '63, Regent. 
Harrison W. Bassett, A. B., '54. 
George W. Bates, A. B., '70. 
Octavia W. Bates, A. B., '77. 
Benjamin L. Baxter, Ex-Regent. 
Samuel W. Beakes, LL. B., '83. 
Junius E. Beal, B. L., '82. 
Caroline P. Bell, A. B., '85. 
Wooster W. Beman, A. B., '70. 
Mrs. Wooster W. Beman. 
Emily A. Benn, A. B., '83. 
William W. Bishop, A. B., '92. 



Charles A. Blair, A. B., '76. 

Frederick L. Bliss, A. B., '77. 

Allen P. Boyer, C. E., '71. 

Alvah Bradish, A. M., '52. 

Rev. John W. Bradshaw, A. B.. 
(Middlebury), '69. 

Edgar E. Brandon, A. B., '88. 

William F. Breakey, M. D., '59. 

Mrs. William F. Breakey. 

Frederic F. Briggs, A. B., '93. 

Hugh Brown, A. B., '84. 

William N. Brown, LL. B., '70. 

Mrs. William N. Brown. 

Benjamin F. Buck, A. B., '93. 

Gertrude Buck, B. S., '94. 

Henry F. Burton, A. B., '72. 

Roger W. Butterfield, LL. B., '68, 
Regent. 

William A. Caldwell, B. S., '96. 

Edward D. Campbell, B. S., '86. 

Mrs. Edward D. Campbell. 

Henry M. Campbell, Ph. B., '76. 

Katherine Campbell, A. B., '90. 

Robert Campbell, LL. B., '93. 

William A. Campbell, M. D., '82. 

Mrs. William A. CampbeU, B. S., 
'92. 

Henry S. Carhart, A. B. (Wes- 
leyan Univ.), '69. 

Flemming Carrow, M. D. (Colum- 
bian Univ.), '74. 

Thomas T. Caswell, A. B. (Brown), 
'61. 

George H. Chaffin, LL. B., '84. 



1 This list is not complete, but it is believed to contain the names of all, or nearly all, the 
alumni present. 



GUESTS AT THE DINNER. 



89 



Theodore R. Chase, A. B., '49. 

Dwight B. Cheever, B. S., '91. 

Noah W. Cheever, A. B., '63. 

Horatio N. Chute, B. S., '72. 

John E. Clark, A. B., '56. 

Holbrook G. Cleaveland, A. B., 
'93. 

William J. Cocker, A. B., '69, Re- 
gent. 

George P. Codd, A. B., '91. 

Mrs. James H. Coggeshall. 

Peter Collier, A. B. (Yale), '61. 

Mrs. Peter Collier. 

Alvah N. Collins, M. D., '85. 

Mrs. Alvah N. CoUins, Lit., '84. 

Charles E. Conley, A. B., '71. 

Frances C. Cook, B. L., '96. 

Peter N. Cook, LL. B., '74, Re- 
gent. 

Mrs. Peter N. Cook. 

Charles H. Cooley, A. B., '87. 

Mrs. Mortimer E. Cooley. 

Orville W. Coolidge, A. B., '63. 

Roy S. Copeland, M. D., '89. 

Mrs. Roy S. Copeland. 

Nathan D. Corbin, B. S., '86. 

James M. Crosby, B. S., '91. 

Alfred O. Crozier, LL. B., '86. 

Byron M. Cutcheon, A. B., '61, 
Ex-Regent. 

Walter A. Cutler, A. B., '92. 

Joseph B. Davis, C. E., '68. 

Raymond C. Davis, A. M., '81. 

Mrs. Raymond C. Davis, Lit., '76. 

Harlow P. Davock, B. S., '70. 

Thomas W. Day, LL. B., '94. 

Elizabeth W. Dean, B. S., '91. 

Henry S. Dean, Regent. 

Isaac N. Demmon, A. B., '68. 

Mrs. Isaac N. Demmon. 

Charles S. Denison, B. S. (Ver- 
mont), '70. 

Don M. Dickinson, LL. B., 67. 

Charles Y. Dixon, B. S., '87. 



George Dock, M. D. (Univ. of Pa.), 
'84. 

Martin L. D'Ooge, A. B., '62. 

Mrs. Martin L. D'Ooge. 

Charles L. Doolittle, C. E., '74. 

WilUam H. Dorrance, D. D. S., '79. 

Edgar M. Doughty, A. B., '90. 

Henry W. Douglas, B. S., '90. 

Joseph H. Drake, A. B., '85. 

Andrew S. Draper, President of the 
University of Illinois. 

Sidney C. Eastman, A. B., '73. 

William M. Edwards, M. D., '84. 

Charles W. Ellis, B. S., '96. 

Calvin R. Elwood, M. D., '94. 

Herman H. Eymer, B. S., '94. 

Delos Fall, B. S., '75. 

Frank C. Ferguson, A. B., '77. 

Dexter M. Ferry. 

Byron A. Finney, A. B., '71. 

James B. Fitzgerald, M. D. (Tufts), 
'92. 

John H. Flagg, C. E., '72. 

Frank W. Fletcher, Ph. B., '75, 
Regent. 

Homer A. Flint, B. S., '61. 

Henry A. Friedman, Ph. B., '93. 

Eugene K. FrueaufP, LL. B., '75. 

Franklin B. Galbraith, M. D., '61. 

Frederick L. Geddes, A. B., '72. 

Joseph M. Gelston, A. B., '69. 

Willard C. Gore, Ph. B., '94. 

Herbert J. Goulding, B. S., '93. 

Claudius B. Grant, A. B., '59, Ex- 
Regent. 

Frederic D. Green, A. B., '92. 

Charles E. Greene, A. B. (Har- 
vard), '62. 

Carl Grosse, LL. B., '85. 

Dwight M. Guillotte, B. S., '96. 

Abram S. Hall, Ph. B., '76. 

Arthur G. Hall, B. S., '87. 

Asaph Hall, Jr., A. B. (Harvard), 
'82. 



90 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 



Louis P. Hall, D. D. S., '89. 

Francis M. Hamilton, A. B., '69. 

Mrs. Francis M. Hamilton. 

Walter M. Hamilton, A. B., '94. 

William W. Hannan, A. B., '80. 

William R. Harper, President of the 
University of Chicago. 

Samuel S. Harris, A. B., '93. 

William T. Harris, United States 
Commissioner of Education. 

Walter S. Harsha, A. B., '71. 

John W. Hart, LL. B., '96. 

Sophia M. Hartley, M. D., '75. 

William H. Hawkes, A. B., '87. 

James D. Hawks, Lit., '70. 

Rowland Hazard, A. B. (Brown), 
'49. 

George Hempl, A. B., '79. 

Mrs. George Hempl, A. B., '87. 

William J. Herdman, Ph. B., '72. 

Percy B. Herr, Ph. B., '90. 

Shelley E. Higgins, A. B., '85. 

George O. Higley, B. S., '91. 

Burke A. Hinsdale, A. M. (Wil- 
liams), '71. 

Mrs. Burke A. Hinsdale. 

Mary L. Hinsdale, A. M., '90. 

Wilbert B. Hinsdale, B. S. (Hiram 
Coll.), '75. 

Charles W. Hitchcock, A. M., '80. 

Nelville S. Hoff, D. D. S. (Ohio 
Dent. Coll.), '76. 

Ellen C. Hogeboom, B. S., '77. 

Charles C. Hopkins, LL. B., '76. 

George H. Hopkins, LL. B., '71. 

Kate A. Hopper, B. L., '94. 

Jesse B. Hornung, A. B., '93. 

Benjamin R. Hoyt, M. D., '72. 

Gotthelf C. Huber, M. D., '87. 

Mrs. Gotthelf C. Huber. 

Richard Hudson, A. B., '71. 

Isabella H. Hull, A. B., '84. 

Florence Huson, M. D., '85. 

Harry B. Hutchins, Ph. B., '71. 



Albert P. Jacobs, A. B., '73. 

John A. Jameson, A. B., '91. 

Louis H. Jennings, A. B., '72. 

Elias F. Johnson, LL. B., '90. 

Ronald Kelly, LL. B., '76. 

Francis W. Kelsey, A. B. (Roches- 
ter), '80. 

Mrs. Charles A. Kent. 

Hermann Kiefer, M. D. (Carls- 
ruhe), '49, Regent. 

Edward D. Kinne, A. B., '64. 

Otto Kirchner, A. M., '94. 

Mrs. Otto Kirchner. 

Earle J. Knight, A. B., '71. 

George M. Lane, A. B., '53. 

R. Winifred Lane, A. B., 91. 

Oliver H. Lau, M. D., '82. 

John M. Lee, M. D., '78. 

Louis B. Lee, Lit., '88. 

David Le Favour, B. S., '95. 

James A. Le Roy, A. B., '96. 

Oscar Le Seure, M. D., '73. 

Mrs. Oscar Le Seure. 

Mrs. Francis A. Leslie, A. B., '86. 

Moritz Levi, A. B., '87. 

William A. Lewis, B. S., '96. 

David M. Lichty, M. S., '91. 

Alfred H. Lloyd, A. B. (Harvard), 
'86. 

Warren P. Lombard, A. B. (Har- 
vard), '78. 

Henry N. Loud, Lit., '72. 

Elmer A. Lyman, A. B., '86. 

Charles E. McAlester, B. S., '61. 

Aaron V. McAlvay, A. B., '68. 

James H. McDonald, A. B., '76. 

Mrs. James H. McDonald. 

Ray G. MacDonald, LL. B., '96. 

Harrison B. McGraw, A. B., '91. 

Stanley D. McGraw, Lit., '92. 

Theodore A. McGraw, A. B., '59. 

Harriet E. McKinstry, Ph. B., '96. 

Andrew C. McLaughlin, A. B., '82. 

Mrs. Andrew C. McLaughlin. 



GUESTS AT THE DINNER. 



91 



Joseph R. McLaughlin, B. S., '77. 

Lincoln MacMillan, Lit., '90. 

J. Playfair McMurrich, A. B. (To- 
ronto), '79. 

James McNamara, LL. B., '86. 

Mrs. WiUiam L. Mahon, Ph. B., '83. 

Edward L. Mark, A. B., '71. 

James N. Martin, M. D., '83. 

Mrs. James N. Martin, B. S. (Hills- 
dale), '77. 

David P. Mayhew, Ph. B., '93. 

Fred A. Maynard, A. B., '74. 

Clarence L. Meader, A. B., '91. 

Mrs. Clarence L. Meader, Ph. B., 
'92. 

Floyd R. Mechem, A. M., '94. 

Mrs. Floyd R. Mechem. 

Edward Menkin, LL. B., '96. 

Ernst H. Mensel, Ph. D., '96. 

William Merrill, Ph. B., '71. 

Watson B. Millard, A. B., '71. 

Mary L. Miner, Ph. B., '82. 

Selby A. Moran, B. L., '88. 

John D. Muir, Ph. C, '84. 

Rev. James O. Murray, Dean of 
Princeton University. 

Charles B. Nancrede, M. D. (Univ. 
of Pa.), '69. 

Mrs. Charles B. Nancrede. 

Rev. John Neumann. 

Frederick C. Newcombe, B. S., '90. 

Walter H. Nichols, B. S., '91. 

Mrs. Walter H. Nichols, B. S., '94. 

Frederick G. Novy, B. S., '86. 

Mrs. Frederick G. Novy, Lit., '93. 

Rev. Frank O'Brien, A. M., '94. 

Alfred B. Olsen, M. D., '94. 

Marna R. Osband, A. B., '95. 

Elmer J. Ottaway, B. L., '94. 

Arthur S. Parker, Ph. C, '79. 

Mrs. Arthur S. Parker., Lit., '81. 

Walter R. Parker, B. S., '88. 

Myron H. Parmelee, M. D. (Hahne- 
mann Med. Coll.), '70. 



Albert H. Pattengill, A. B., '68. 

Mrs. Albert H. Pattengill, Lit., '86. 

Henry R. PattengHl, B. S., '74. 

George W. Patterson, A. B. (Yale), 
'84. 

Mrs. George W. Patterson, A. B., '90. 

Isaac N. Payne, A. B., '81. 

Alvick A. Pearson, B. L., '94. 

Edward W. Pendleton, A. B., '72. 

Walter S. Perry, A. B., '61. 

WilHam H. Pettee, A. B. (Har- 
vard), '61. 

Mrs. William H. Pettee. 

Elihu B. Pond. 

Irving K. Pond, C. E., '79. 

Hoyt Post, A. B., '61. 

James A. Post, B. S., '61. 

Albert B. Prescott, M. D., '64. 

Mrs. Albert B. Prescott. 

William E. Quinby, A. B., '58. 

Alexander B. Raymond, C. E., '71. 

Jacob E. Reighard, Ph. B., '82. 

Mrs. Jacob E. Reighard, Lit., '83. 

Joseph Ripley, C. E., '76. 

Henry W. Rogers, A. B., '74. 

John C. Rolfe, A. B. (Harvard), '80. 

Charles A. Rust, B. S., '71. 

Horton C. Ryan, B. L., '93. 

Fannie E. Sabin, Ph. B., '95. 

Robert L. Sackett, B. S., '91. 

Charles E. St. John, Ph. D. (Har- 
vard), '96. 

Edmond L. Sanderson, A. B., '92. 

David A. Sawdey, Ph. B., '76. 

John G. Schurtz, A. M., '81. 

Fred. N. Scott, A. B., '84. 

Mrs. Fred. N. Scott, A. B., '84. 

Francis M. Sessions, Ph. B., '88. 

Juliette Sessions, Ph. B., '93. 

John Q. A. Sessions, A. B., '56. 

George B. Sheehy, A. B., '85. 

Clarence C. Sherrard, Ph. C, '90. 

Harry G. Sherrard, A. B., '82. 

Mrs. Harry G. Sherrard. 



92 PRESIDENT ANGELL'S QUARTER-CENTENNIAL. 



Edwin S. Sherrill, A. B., '80. 
Herbert M. Slauson, Ph. B., '77. 

Elliott T. Slocum, A. M., '69. 

Frank H. Smith, B. S., '93. 

Frederic L. Smith, Ph. B., '90. 

Walter O. Smith, Lit., '93. 

J. L. Snyder, President of Michigan 
Agricultural College. 

Mrs. J. L. Snyder. 

Hiram A. Sober, A. B., '86. 

Harrison Soule. 

Charles W. Southworth, A. B., '93. 

Volney M. Spalding, A. B., '73. 

Mrs. Volney M. Spalding, B. S. '85. 

WiUard G. Sperry, A. B. (Yale), 
'69, President of Olivet College. 

Albert A. Stanley, A. M., '90. 

Mrs. Albert A. Stanley. 

Alviso B. Stevens, Ph. C, '75. 

Merari B. Stevens, M. D., '69. 

Clarence G. Stone, Ph. C, '77. 

Katharine E. Sumner, Ph. B., '91. 

Jonathan Taft, D. D. S. (Ohio 
Dent. Coll.), '50. 

Rev. Henry Tatlock, A. B. (WU- 
liams), '71. 

Fred M. Taylor, Ph. D., '88. 

Andrew Ten Brook, A. B. (Col- 
gate), '39. 

Bradley M. Thompson, B. S., '58. 

Mrs. Bradley M. Thompson. 

Frank B. Tibbals, M. D., '91. 

Russell F. Tinkham, A. B., '72. 

Robert H. Tripp, A. B., '61. 

Thomas C. Trueblood, A. M. (Earl- 
ham), '88. 

Mrs. Charles K.Turner, A. B., '72. 

Henry M. Utley, A. B., '61. 

Raymond E. Van Syckle, B. S., '91. 

Victor C. Vaughan, M. S., '75. 



Mrs. Victor C. Vaughan. 

Lillie M. VoUand, B. L., '96. 

Ernst Voss, Ph. D. (Leipzig), '95. 

James H. Wade. 

George Wagner, Ph. C, '93 

Byron S. Waite, B. L., '80. 

Mrs. Henry C. Waldron. 

Bryant Walker, A. B., '76. 

Mrs. Charles H. Walker, Ph. B., '77. 

Edward L. Walter, A. B., '68. 

Edward D. Warner, B. L., '91. 

John A. Watling, D. D. S. (Ohio 
Dent. Coll.), '60. 

Mrs. John A. Watling. 

William D. Washburn, A. B., '79. 

Mrs. William D. Washburn. 

Elmer R. Webster, A. B., '79. 

William W. Wedemeyer, B. L., '94. 

Francis H. Wessels, A. B., '96. 

Charles R. Whitman, A. B., '70, 
Ex-Regent. 

Horace L. Wilgus, B. S. (Ohio 

State Univ.), '82. 
George Willard, Ex-Regent. 
Mrs. George Willard. 
M. Alice WilUams, A. B., '76. 
Max Winkler, A. B. (Harvard), 

'89. 
Justin Winsor, A. B. (Harvard), 

'53. 
Dean C. Worcester, A. B., '89. 
Mrs. Dean C. Worcester, Lit., 

'92. 
G. Frederick Wright, A. B. (Ober- 

Un), '59. 
Robert M. Wright, A. B., '71. 
Rev. Thomas W. Young. 
Robert Young, LL. B., '83. 
Alexander Ziwet, C. E. (Carls- 
ruhe), '80. 



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